SERGE SARGSIAN: ARTSAKH PROBLEM SHOULD BE IN CENTER OF ATTENTION OF
ARMENIAN PRESIDENT’S ACTIONS

YEREVAN, JANUARY 14, NOYAN TAPAN. The Artsakh problem should be in the
center of attention of the Armenian president’s actions, is said in the
pre-election program of the prime minister Serge Sargsian who has been
proposed as a candidate for the post of the Armenian president.

According to the program, the settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh
problem will be based on the following principles: the international
recognition of the Arstakh people’s right of self-determination and the
creation of conditions for exercise of this right, the security of the
NKR’s population and borders, the existence of a common border between
the Republic of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. It is stated
that the conflict’s settlement is not possible in one day – it is a
group of actions implemented by several steps. "The agreement among all
the Karabakh conflict parties should include as a package the solutions
to all the issues and those mechanisms that should ensure the
implementation of these issues," is said in the document.

In accordance with S.Sargsian’s program, Armenia should establish
normal relations with neighboring states. It is stated in the program
that Armenia should show willingness in the issue of establishing
diplomatic relations with Turkey and opening the borders, considering
that its basis cannot not be formed by the preconditions for rejecting
the necessity of recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict-related and other preconditions.

The pre-election program of the Armenian prime minister states that the
RA national security strategy should be aimed at ensuring the stability
of the country and the region and overcoming the existing
contradictions. Based on it, the major task of the state’s security in
the coming years will be the construction of a united multilevel system
of national security with the participation of state government bodies.