“Artsakh cannot be a part of Azerbaijan…if like in 1997 they want to become a friend of Azerbaijan on the price of Nagorno-Karabakh, I do not agree with that. In that case, what answer can we give to the families of victims of the Karabakh movement and to those who have become disabled. Why did their sons fight? And about Turkey, we cannot leave the word genocide out of our vocabulary and forget about the 1.5 million victims.”

—  Mikael Harutyunyan

Quoted in "MINISTER: ARTSAKH CANNOT BE PART OF AZERBAIJAN" Panorama.am - [February 15, 2008]

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