Polls in separatist Karabakh “better” organized than in Britain, observer
says
Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
20 Jun 05
[Presenter] Nagornyy Karabakh is a small state but it has a great
democratic future, the head of the American observers’ group (?Jim
Huper) said. The international observers assessed the elections in
Artsakh [Karabakh] as fair and transparent, announcing that the voting
was held without any serious violations.
Paul Williams, a representative of the Public International Law and
Policy Group, announced that the elections in Artsakh were fair and
transparent which will undoubtedly have a positive impact on the
process of settling the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.
The observer from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, Mark
Almond, noted that the election process was democratic. Many known
states could have followed Karabakh’s example. The elections here were
better organized than in Great Britain, he said.
[Correspondent Vage Kostandyan from Artsakh] The fourth parliamentary
elections in the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic deemed valid, no serious
violations were registered, the leaders of the American, Russian and
Great Britain observer groups told a new conference on 20 June.
[Mark Almond, captioned in English with Armenian voice over] The
elections proved that a system of self-determination has been
established in Karabakh. I hope that the OSCE Minsk Group will take
this into consideration in settling the Karabakh problem.
[Passage omitted: chairman of the Karabakh Central Electoral
Commission announced the preliminary results of the election]
Vage Konstandyan, Tigran Babayan, “Aylur”, Stepanakert.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress