NKR PRESIDENT ANTICIPATES SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR KARABAKH SETTLEMENT FROM CONFERENCE’S PARTICIPANTS
DeFacto Agency
May 23 2008
Armenia
STEPANAKERT, 23.05.08. DE FACTO. The international conference entitled
"Karabakh Movement: Realities and Perspectives" devoted to the
movement’s 20th anniversary started in Stepanakert today.
The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President delivered welcoming address
to the conference’s participants. He mentioned peculiar significance
and urgency of the issues referring to the current process and
perspectives of settlement of the Karabakh conflict, as well as of
other ethno political conflicts on the post Soviet territory to be
discussed at the conference.
"The discussions of the issues under current complicated geopolitical
conditions should imply not just consideration of the real situation in
the process of settlement of conflicts, in part, the Nagorno-Karabakh
one. I believe the conference should elaborate specific theoretical
and practical recommendations for the Karabakh conflict settlement
taking into consideration current realties, as well as historical and
legal grounds for the establishment of NKR’s independent statehood,
modern tendencies of international law’s development", the NKR
President underscored.
Bako Sahakian expressed hope that during the process of constructive
exchange of opinion the conference’s participants would put forward
interesting ideas and initiatives. "The conference should find
its continuation in practical activity of the representatives of
corresponding state structures, scientific and expert communities, as
well as of all those, who are sincerely interested in the settlement
of the Karabakh conflict and establishment of stable and long-lasting
peace in our region", the NKR President stated.
The representatives of political, scientific and expert circles
from Russia, the U. S., Germany, Greece, Belgium, Iran and Armenia,
as well as those representing non-recognized republics of Abkhazia,
South Ossetia and Transnistria participate in the conference.