ARKADY GHOUKASSIAN THANKS ARMENIAN DIPLOMATS FOR ACTIVE CONTRIBUTION
TO INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF NKR

STEPANAKERT, July 30 (Noyan Tapan). As part of celebrations of the
10th anniversary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, on July 30 NKR President Arkady Ghoukassian
received a delegation of the Armenian MFA led by Minister Vardan
Oskanian as well as workers of the central staff of the NKR Ministry
of Foreign Affairs led by Minister Ashot Ghulian. The delegation also
included Armenia’s ambassadors to a number of foreign states. The
meeting was attended also by permanent representatives of the NKR
abroad. According to the Head Information Department attached to the
NKR President, during the meeting Vardan Oskanian expressed his
gratitude to the NKR leadership for the invitation to take part in the
ceremonial events in connection with the jubilee of the Karabakh
foreign-policy department. He pointed out that during the jubilee
celebrations a consultation on topical issues of Armenia’s and
Karabakh’s foreign policies took place, which proved useful in terms
of exchanging opinions and in terms of prospects for further
development and deepening of cooperation between the ministries of the
two Armenian republics. Ghoukassian thanked the Armenian diplomats for
their active contribution to the resolution of Nagorno Karabakh’s
problem, pointing out the importance of solving tasks facing the
Armenian people through combined efforts of Karabakh, Armenia and the
Armenian Diaspora. In this connection, the NKR head stressed the need
for more frequent conduct of meetings between the workers of the two
foreign-policy departments. A ceremony of signing the Protocol on
Cooperation between the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and
Nagorno Karabakh took place in conclusion.