KARABAKH RECOGNITION BILL "INAPPROPRIATE"- ARMENIAN LEADER’S SPOKESMAN

Mediamax
Sept 14 2007
Armenia

Yerevan, 14 September: Armenian president’s press secretary Viktor
Soghomonyan has said that "Nagornyy Karabakh’s independence has
no alternative".

Taking questions from journalists in Yerevan today [14 September],
Soghomonyan called "inappropriate" the draft law to recognize the
Nagornyy Karabakh republic [NKR] submitted to parliament by the
opposition Heritage party.

He said that the actual recognition of the NKR by Armenia had
happened long ago and that Armenian President Robert Kocharyan’s
recent participation in NKR president Bako Sahakyan’s inauguration
ceremony is an obvious proof of it.

Meanwhile, Soghomonyan said, "we consider as unacceptable attempts
of using Nagornyy Karabakh to obtain political dividends ".

Commenting on the GUAM [Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova]
initiative of discussing "frozen conflicts" at the UN General Assembly,
Soghomonyan said that the OSCE Minsk Group format is the best one for
finding a solution to the Karabakh conflict and attempts of shifting
the process to other bodies are pointless.