NAGORNO-KARABAKH CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION REGISTERS FIVE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
June 14 2007

STEPANAKERT, June 14. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh Central Election
Commission decided Thursday to register five presidential candidates
– Bako Saakyan, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National Security chief;
Masis Mailyan, deputy foreign minister; MP Armen Abgaryan; Vanya
Avanesyan, professor at Artsakh – Bako Saakyan, Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic National Security chief; Masis Mailyan, deputy foreign
minister; MP Armen Abgaryan; Vanya Avanesyan, professor at Artsakh
State University, and Hrant Melkumyan, Karabakh Communist Party leader.

Date for launching election campaigns is already set. The Candidates
can start campaigning on June 20.

The presidential elections are scheduled for July 19, 2007.