The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict - A Legal Analysis

von: Heiko Krüger

Springer-Verlag, 2010

ISBN: 9783642143939 , 164 Seiten

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The Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict - A Legal Analysis


 

Table of Contents

5

List of abbreviations

8

Introduction

10

Chapter A: The territorial Status of NagornoKarabakh

12

I. Object of investigation

12

II. Historical outline

12

1. Legal significance of history

13

2. From antiquity to the early modern period: ethnic dislocations and intermixing under Muslim rule

15

3. Later modern period: waves of Armenian immigration

19

4. Beginning of the 20th century: between the fronts of the great powers

22

5. Soviet era: Nagorno-Karabakh as an autonomous region in the Azerbaijan SSR

25

6. Post-Soviet era: war, ceasefire and an unresolved conflict

33

III. Analysis under USSR law

35

1. Validity of the law of the USSR

36

2. Territorial status of Nagorno-Karabakh

38

3. Secession of Nagorno-Karabakh under the 1977 Constitution of the USSR?

39

4. The secession of Nagorno-Karabakh under the 1990 Law on Secession of the USSR?

41

5. Effects of the revocation of the autonomous status

50

6. Preliminary conclusion

51

IV. Analysis under international law

51

1. Nagorno-Karabakh as an original component of the Republic of Azerbaijan

52

2. The principle of territorial integrity under international law

61

3. Exceptions to the principle of territorial integrity: right to self-determination and rights to secession

64

4. Preliminary conclusion

101

Chapter B: Involvement of the Republic of Armenia in the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh

104

I. Object of investigation

104

II. Violation of the prohibition on the use of force in international law

105

1. Applicability of the prohibition on the use of force

105

2. Violation of the prohibition on the use of force

106

III. Violation of the prohibition on intervention under international law

121

IV. Preliminary conclusion

123

Summary

126

Charter of the United Nations (extracts)

130

Friendly Relations Declaration (extracts)

133

UN Security Council Resolution 822 (1993)

139

UN Security Council Resolution 853 (1993)

140

UN Security Council Resolution 874 (1993)

142

UN Security Council Resolution 884 (1993)

144

UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/48/114 (1993)

146

UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/60/285 (2006)

148

UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/62/243 (2008)

149

Council of Europe – Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1416 (2005)

151

Statement of the OSCE Chairman-In-Office

154

Bibliography

155

Index

162