NAGORNO-KARABAKH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ILLEGAL – AZERI CEC

Interfax, Russia
July 18 2007

BAKU. July 18 (Interfax) – The Nagorno-Karabakh presidential elections
scheduled for July 19 are illegal, head of the international relations
department at the Azeri Central Elections Commission (CEC) Rovzat
Gasymov said.

"Nagorno-Karabakh is an integral part of Azerbaijan, and any electoral
process on Azeri territory should be guided by the Azeri Constitution
and legislation," he told Interfax.

"In the current conditions this should be called a political game of
a separatist regime, not elections," Gasymov said.