The Parliament of Western Armenia deprecates the event organized in Kars (Turkey) on March 17, 2015 by the governments of the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan regarding the start of the Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) construction ceremony and reminds that before taking such a step in accordance with statements of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (September 13, 2007) the before-mentioned governments of republics might get the free, prior and informed consent of indigenous people in region, especially Armenians.
And, in that, according to Treaty of Sevres (signed on August 10, 1920) Kars and the surrounding territories are a part of Armenian State and according to the 28th US President Woodrow Vilson’s Decision of the Arbitral Award (November 22, 1920) to the demarcation between Turkey and Western Armenia Kars and the surrounding territories are a part of Armenian State.
Accordingly the illegal large-scale programs and projects that are related to the indigenous in region (especially Armenians and the interests of Armenian State) and implemented in these territories by the other states cannot be considered as legitimate and illegitimate.
Accordingly we plead for the UN Security Council and the other UN’s relevant bodies to undertake decisive measures to suspend and terminate the implemented TANAP project by the governments of the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Recall, according to Western Armenia Armenian’s law and will it’s founded the government in exile in Western Armenia on 4 February, 2011, it’s formed the Western Armenia’s National Assembly (Parliament) on 20 January, 2014 on the basis of the general elections. Thus it’s elected the President of Western Armenia completing and finalizing the Western Armenia Republic final engineering process of state structures.
Armen TER-SARKISYAN
President jf the Nacional Assembly (Parliament) of Western Armenia
20.03.2015
