DEUTSCHE WELLE REPORTS ON NAGORNO KARABAKH

Yerevan, January 9. ArmInfo. "The constitutional referendum in Nagorno
Karabakh Republic (NKR) is a crucial moment for consolidation of
democracy in the self acknowledged republic. Authorities of Azerbaijan
can’t deny that", this is a preamble of one of the reports of Andrew
Brenner, Bonn journalist and a prominent editor of Russian service
of Deutsche Welle.

Brenner’s materials on Nagorno Karabakh’s attempts
to self-determination, youth of Nagorno Karabakh and the war,
agriculture, and other, went on air on 2, 3 and 4 January 2007. The
journalist tells stories of the present life and problems of NKR’s
population. He said that the negative resonance of international
community and organizations on constitutional referendum in NKR was
quite expected by majority of the population.

Masis Mailyan, Deputy Head of Foreign Ministry of NKR, said – "Frankly
speaking, expectations were a bit different. We thought the reaction
would be a silence. The thing is that when we held elections into
the parliament the only Azerbaijan and Turkey demonstrated negative
reaction. European entities revealed no reaction then. We accepted
it all right."

As per Mr. Mailyan, the very fact of denial of the referendum
is a negative reaction. His approach to this point coincides to
that of Gegham Baghdassaryan, Co-Chair of ‘Movement 88’. "Does the
international community want to make NKR a caserne? I don’t see how
democratization of one of the sides to the conflict would negatively
influence the negotiation process".