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[03:55 pm] 19 July, 2007

"Karabakh people are for objective elections and we believe in
fair elections. The president of Nagorno-Karabakh can be the person
elected by the NKR people only. I have already voted and wait for
the results with impatience. I don’t know why I am certain that my
favorite candidate will win", said a NKR citizen who visited number
E/1 polling station, which is the Karabakh permanent representation
in Armenia, to fulfill his responsibility. Some NKR citizens are not
in their birthplace today and are voting in Armenia.

The majority of 90 NKR citizens registered in the permanent
representation had voted by the noon today.

83 citizens had voted by 12:30. Among them were citizens whose names
were missing in the voting lists.

"People come and vote actively. That is a great achievement. Mainly
students have not participated in the elections since they are
in Karabakh", said Armen Grigoryan, chairman of the commission of
polling station.

It is worthwhile mentioning that neither a proxy, nor a local or
international observer was present at the representation. We tried
to find it out from the chairman of the commission. He noted that
no observer had claimed for it. "We do not have an observer. That is
their problem".

The members of the commission ensure that no fraud cases or an
incident was registered. "The elections are conducted transparently,
the voters vote for the candidate they want", assured the chairman
of the commission.

We should remind that 5 candidates are nominated for the post of the
NKR president.