NKR PRESIDENT APPEALS TO NKR PEOPLE ON THE OCCASION OF THE ELECTIONS TO NKR NA

STEPANAKERT, June 17. /ARKA/. NKR President Arkadi Ghukasyan appealed
to NKR people on the occasion of the elections to NKR NA. He noted that
he believed that the deputies of the new convocation of the Karabakh
parliament will be most worthy candidates. “Pre-election campaign is
being over and it was held positively and became one more step for the
further democratization of our state and society”, according to the
statement of the president. Meantime, it’s noted in the statement that
some candidates forgetting about elementary norms of ethics, pursue
only one goal, namely by any means, including inadmissible ones, to
discredit rivals, without introducing to electors their own programs
on legislative activity. The president guaranteed in his appeal that
voting will be fair and transparent. “I assure you that any attempts
to violate the law, as well as post-elections destabilization of the
situation will receive due evaluation. The initiators and performers
will be held responsible”, he said.

In his message Ghukasyan noted that the approaching elections are
have an important international meaning for Nagorno-Karabakh. “By our
attitude to elections we should demonstrate the world irreversibility
of democratic reforms in the country and contribute to international
acknowledgement of NKR. If the forthcoming parliamentary elections
are not in line with European standards, then the image of our state
will suffer, and its authority on the international arena will in
its effect negatively on peaceful process of the settlement of the
conflict with Azerbaijan. In other words, the fate of Artsakh and
our achievements are at stake”, according to the message. A.H. -0–