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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
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