KARABAKH LEADER DENIES PLANNING TO RUN FOR THIRD TERM

Mediamax News Agency, Armenia
11 Oct 06

Yerevan, 11 October: "I have no intention of being elected for a third
term," the president of the Nagornyy Karabakh republic [NKR], Arkadiy
Gukasyan, said at a new conference in Stepanakert [Xankandi] today.

"I assure you that I have no intention of being re-elected for a third
term. Even if the constitution gives me that right in the future,
this does not mean at all that I will use this opportunity.

The norms of morality are as important to me as the norms of law. As
a man and the president, I have done everything possible for the
process of democratization in our society to become irreversible.

This has not always been easy. What is worth risking so much to
endanger the values our people stands by and cast a shadow on the
image of the NKR?" Gukasyan said.