NKR FORMER FM ARMAN MELIKIAN TO RUN FOR RA PRESIDENT

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Nov 29 2007

Nagorno-Karabakh Republic ex FM Arman Melikian intends to run for RA
President, Melikian stated in the course of a press conference held
at Urbat Club on November 28.

On the same day Arman Melikian, former FM of Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic, currently foreign policy Adviser to Karabakh President,
filed a resignation to NKR President Bako Sahakian.

Arman Melikian admitted the fact that Karabakh people were not informed
of his decision, however, they are most likely to learn everything
after today’s press conference.

Ter-Petrossian and his staff suggest that corrupt system of power
should be liquidated, however, in the Karabakh settlement issue they
remain on the positions of 1997 and are ready to relinquish liberated
territories controlled by NKR.

Republican staff does not guarantee that the territories will not be
relinquished, at the same time it categorically rejects the fact of
corruption, Arman Melikian believes. In his words, "to build a normal
state there is no need to relinquish territories; not to relinquish
territories there is no necessity to have a corrupt system of a state".

"Whoever the nation will vote for will find himself in a bad
situation. In the first case he will have to agree to lose territories,
in the second – to cope with corruption. It is a bad choice, so we
should try to avoid it by joint efforts", NKR ex FM stated.