ARMENIAN MINISTER URGES KARABAKH’S INVOLVEMENT IN TALKS

Mediamax News Agency
Aug 8 2008
Armenia

Yerevan, 8 August: Armenian Defence Minister Seyran Ohanyan today
said that "Nagornyy Karabakh’s mandatory active participation in the
negotiating process" is necessary.

Ohanyan said this in Stepanakert [Xankandi] today following a meeting
with the president of the Nagornyy Karabakh republic (NKR), Bako
Sahakyan, during which they discussed wide-ranging issues concerning
the defence building, the situation on the contact line [between the
Armenian and Azerbaijani armed forces] and the negotiations process,
Mediamax reported.