PARUYR HAYRIKIAN TO TAKE PART IN NKR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AS OBSERVER

Noyan Tapan
Jul 16 2007

YEREVAN, JULY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. Paruyr Hayrikian, the Chairman of
the National Self-Determination Union party, will leave for Nagorno
Karabakh together with a representative of the U.S. Union of Lawyers
to implement monitoring mission at the presidential elections to be
held there on July 19. He said this at the July 16 press conference.

In P. Hayrikian’s words, the strange thing about the upcoming elections
in Artsakh is that almost all political forces, both pro-governmental
and opposition, support one candidate (the former NKR National Security
head, Bako Sahakian: NT). And on the whole, in the speaker’s words,
the election campaign is proceeding normally. As a positive phenomenon
P. Hayrikian mentioned the circumstance that no electoral bribe is
being given. In his words, all candidates for presidency realize that
"much depends on their conduct in the respect of the Nagorno Karabakh
problem’s international perception."