Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR] elects new speaker

Mediamax news agency
30 Jun 05

Yerevan, 30 June: The chairman of the Artsakh Democratic Party,
Ashot Gulyan, 39, was today elected chairman of the Nagornyy Karabakh
Republic [NKR] National Assembly, a Mediamax special correspondent
reported from Stepanakert.

Thirty out of the 33 deputies voted for Ashot Gulyan.

[Passage omitted: Ashor Gulyan was the foreign minister of the NKR
from October 2002 to December 2004, other biographical data]

MP Rudik Usnunts, from the Free Motherland Party was elected deputy
speaker of the National Assembly.