NKR PRESIDENT: OUR KEY TASKS TODAY ARE TO PRESERVE PEACE AND ATTAIN NKR’S INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION
Regnum, Russia
Sept 4 2006
"I am absolutely sure that today the world community is not interested
in a new war," Nagorno Karabakh President Arkady Gukasyan said during
a news conference in Stepanakert, when asked about the possibility
of a new war in Karabakh. A REGNUM correspondent reports him to say
that he does not see any political, economic, moral or geographic
prerequisites for new war.
He said that "our key achievement today is that we have attained our
goal, have won in a war imposed on us and have built a developing
state. The free and independent life of the Nagorno Karabakh people
is the symbol of the last 15 years." Gukasyan pointed out that the
proclamation of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic was the only way for
the Nagorno Karabakh people to survive. "Life has proved that we were
right. Otherwise, we would have the same fate as Nakhichevan had in
its time," Gukasyan said.
He said that the key tasks of NKR today are to preserve peace
by concluding a peace agreement with Azerbaijan and to attain
international recognition. "I think we can solve these two key
problems," Gukasyan said.