GHUKASYAN: NKR’S INDEPENDENCE FROM AZERBAIJAN NOT END IN ITSELF
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Aug. 31, 2006
STEPANAKERT, August 31. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s
independence from Azerbaijan is the only way for Karabkhi people
development and prosperity, not an end in itself, Arkady Ghukasyan,
the republic’s president said answering Azat Artsakh newspaper readers’
questions on Thursday.
"We has realized that international recognition of NKR is a long and
thorny way depending on geopolitical developments in the region",
the president said.
"But everything depends on us, our will, patience, ability to overcome
obstacles, our consolidation and firmness and readiness to build
statehood", Ghukasyan said.
In his words, Nagorno-Karabakh republic has accomplished a great deal
in building statehood, and many in the world have placed it on record.
Ghukasyan said Karabakh people had managed to recover the republic
after the war and had left Azerbaijan behind in building democracy
and other parameters.