CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM IN KARABAKH SET FOR DECEMBER 10

Armenpress

STEPANAKERT, NOVEMBER 3, ARMENPRESS: Nagorno-Karabakh leader Arkady
Ghukasian has decreed today to set December 10 of 2006 as the date
of the constitutional referendum.

On November 1 the Nagorno-Karabakh National Assembly (parliament)
approved the draft Constitution in the second reading. The draft was
approved by the overwhelming majority of deputies, with one "against"
and one abstention.

On December 10, 1991 a referendum was held in Nagorno-Karabakh with
99.8 percent of voters supporting Nagorno-Karabakh’s independence
from Azerbaijan.