NKR politician wants Karabakh’s international recognition

Arminfo, Yerevan
17 Jun 05

Stepanakert, 17 June: The chairman of the board of the Movement 88
Party, Eduard Agabekyan, does not see any pro-opposition moods in
Nagornyy Karabakh society.

“We do not criticize for the sake of criticism. We analyse the
situation, reveal shortcomings and propose ways of resolving them. I
think that the people and those elected by them will make the right
choice,” he says.

Agabekyan believes that the world community cannot endlessly ignore
the right of the people of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic to elect
its authorities and should recognize this right one day.

“It is not by chance that not a single international organization
has said that the upcoming 19 June parliamentary elections are
illegitimate, although elections in Karabakh used to be accompanied by
such statements every time. I think that a lot has changed since the
2004 municipal elections when the world saw for itself the ability
of the Karabakh people to decide their fate on their own. I see the
settlement of the Karabakh problem in the recognition of the rights
of the people,” Eduard Agabekyan noted.