ADVISOR TO NKR PRESIDENT FORWARDED A PETITION ON RESIGNATION AND INTENDS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN ARMENIA
Mediamax
November 28, 2007
Yerevan /Mediamax/. Advisor to the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic (NKR) Arman Melikian informed in Yerevan today on his
nomination for participation in the presidential elections in Armenia.
Mediamax reports that Arman Melikian stated today that he has already
forwarded a petition to the NKR President Bako Sahakian on resignation.
44-year-old Melikian stated that he made a decision to get nominated
for the position of the Armenian President back in late October. "I do
not consider myself an alternative candidate, but I have my own vision
for a way out for the country from the present situation", he stated.
According to Melikian, with the factual start of the electoral race,
real danger appeared for civil collisions, as a result of which the
stances of the Armenian side in the process of the Karabakh conflict
settlement may suffer.
Arman Melikian stated that "the return of liberated territories,
about which both Serzh Sarkisian and Levon Ter-Petrosian talk, is
pregnant with devastation of Nagorno-Karabakh later on".
"There are no perquisites for returning those territories, and Armenia
should never deal with this issue instead of Nagorno-Karabakh",
he stated.
Mediamax notes that before becoming Advisor to the NKR President,
Arman Melikian was the Permanent Representative of NKR.