BREAKAWAY KARABAKH SET TO BUILD DEMOCRACY

Mediamax news agency
16 Sep 04

Yerevan, 16 September: Since 1999, the authorities of the Nagornyy
Karabakh Republic (NKR) have taken consecutive steps to democratize
society and liberalize the economy.

As our special correspondent reports from Stepanakert (Xankandi),
Anushavan Daniyelyan, prime minister of the NKR, said this at the first
(autumn) session of the National Assembly on Wednesday (15 September),
commenting on a recent statement by the chief of the General Staff
of the NKR’s defence army, Maj-Gen Movses Akopyan, that the country
needed to establish a special political regime.

The head of the NKR government said that ”nobody has the right to
privatize democracy and decide whether we need to hold democratic
reforms or not”.

While 85 per cent of the republic’s GDP was produced in the public
sector in 1999, now this figure has acquired a completely opposite
meaning, Daniyelyan said.

“Measures to further liberalize the economy attest to the authorities’
plans to continue the course towards democratization,” Daniyelyan said.