PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS WILL BE THE GUARANTEE OF RECOGNITION OF NKR’S SOVEREIGNTY, LEVON MELIK-SHAHNAZARIAN CONSIDERS

Noyan Tapan
Jul 10, 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. The war is not resumed in NKR because
the Azeri army is not battle-worthy. Political scientist Levon
Melik-Shahnazarian expressed such an opinion at the July 10 press
conference. In his words, the negotiations process between Armenia
and Azerbaijan will be frozen until 2009, as currently the regional
countries are in the pre-election period.

Touching upon the joint one-day trip of Armenian and Azeri
intellectuals to Armenia, NKR and Azerbaijan, L. Melik-Shahnazarian
said that this was not a people’s-intellectuals’ initiative. In
his words, ambassadors participated in that trip and, according
to diplomatic laws, an ambassador has no right to leave the
country’s territory without President’s permission. In the political
scientist’s opinion, that was a commission fulfilled at the level of
the Presidents.

L. Melik-Shahnazarian also said that the presidential elections to
be held on July 19 in NKR are the guarantee of the recognition of
NKR’s sovereignty.

"Europe has fallen into the trap set by itself, as elections in NKR
are always more democratic than in other regional states, and Europe
is the first apologist of this," the political scientist said.