"NKR: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE": INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN STEPANAKERT

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
June 20 2006

June 21 the international scientific conference titled "Nagorno
Karabakh Republic: Past, Present, Future" dedicated to the 15th
Anniversary of the NKR’s declaration starts at the Artsakh State
University in Stepanakert.

About 200 representatives of over ten countries, including France,
the U.S., Russia, Germany, the U. K. and Armenia, will participate in
the conference initiated by the Republic government, the NKR Minister
of Education, Culture and Sport Kamo Atayan said in an interview
with DE FACTO Agency. "Holding such a representative conference we
will again confirm that the Nagorno Karabakh Republic is a reality,
a state that de facto exists having all necessary state structures",
the Minister said. According to Kamo Atayan, the fact that "the NKR is
developing under conditions of blockade, taking into consideration that
the Republic has not been recognized by the international community"
is of peculiar interest.

There will be three sections in the course of the conference
– historical, cultural, as well as political-legal and
social-economic. Kamo Atayan said for the first time the section
of culture would be held in the Gandzasar Monastery (XIII century)
in the NKR Martakert region.