CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM KICKS OFF IN AZERBAIJAN’S BREAKAWAY KARABAKH
Regnum, Russia
Dec 10 2006
10 December: The referendum on the NKR [Nagornyy Karabakh republic]
constitution has started in Nagornyy Karabakh. Polling stations opened
in the capital and districts of the republic at 0800 (0700 Moscow time)
[0400 gmt].
A total of 22 constituency commissions, 278 polling stations and,
respectively, the same number of electoral commissions have been set up
for the referendum. A total of 430 transparent ballot boxes have been
prepared, of which 399 have been distributed to the polling stations
in the NKR. One is in Yerevan for NKR citizens who are temporarily
in Armenia and 30 are backup ballot boxes.