The Refugee Issue in the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia in the Context of State Building in 1990-1991
Zakaryan, Lilit · 2025
In July 1990 the newly elected Supreme Council of Armenia opened its state-building work by adopting the Declaration of Independence, and amid the scale of that task the Artsakh question was at times pushed into the background. But the intensifying persecution of Armenians in Azerbaijan, and fresh episodes of mass deportation carried out with the consent and participation of collapsing Soviet power structures, forced the Supreme Council to put it back on the agenda. Zakaryan works through the parliamentary debates on mass deportation and shows how they compelled a forced change in the direction of policy during the state-building period.
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Zakaryan, Lilit 2025. The Refugee Issue in the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia in the Context of State Building in 1990-1991. Fundamental Armenology, Issue 1(21) 2025, History (National Academy of Sciences of RA / All Armenian Foundation Financing Armenological Studies); ISSN 1829-4618.
What this offers a reader
The parliamentary record of the deportations, which is evidence rather than memory.
Archival parliamentary history; a documentary source for the Artsakh timeline.
Our own parliament's transcripts record what was being done to Armenians in Azerbaijan in 1990.
How the deportation of Armenians from Azerbaijan forced its way onto Armenia's new parliament's agenda.
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