TWO-DAY VISIT OF RA DELEGATION TO NAGORNO KARABAKH

NKR Government Information and Public Relations Department
November 17, 2008

>From November 14 to 16 the RA delegation headed by the RA Vice-Premier,
the Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan was in
Nagorno Karabakh Republic.

The members of the delegation had a meeting with the NKR Prime Minister
Ara Haroutyunyan, with the ministers and the heads of the NKR Regional
Administrations, then they left for the NKR regions to get acquainted
with the works carried out for social-economic development and the
problems of the regions that need to be solved at spot, and to find
common grounds for cooperation.

On November 14, in the second half of the day the delegation of the
RA province of Shirak paid a visit to the NKR region of Askeran,
the delegation of Aragatsotn to Hadrout, the delegation of Armavir to
Shoushi, the delegations of Lori, Tavoush and Ararat to Martakert, the
delegations of Vayots Dzor and Siunik to Qashatagh and the delegation
of Gegharqouniq to Martouni.

The next morning, the RA delegation accompanied by the NKR Prime
Minister and other officials started for the Askeran defence area,
later moved to Tigranakert and got familiarized with the exploration
works carried out in the area.

They visited the military unit N of Martakert region as well,
participated in the arrangement of the unit and were also in Drmbon
and Gandzasar.

In the morning of November 16, a conference with the participation of
the NKR government members and the heads of regional administrations
took place in the hall of NKR Government sittings. It was opened by the
NKR Prime Minister. Attaching importance to the role of cooperation
Ara Haroutyunyan noted that they will try to find common grounds
for cooperation between both the two Armenian republics and between
concrete provinces and regions not only in the spheres of culture,
education and sport, but in the sphere of economy as well.

The regional governor of Lori noted that they often paid private
visits to Artsakh, but in the last two days they made out much more
for themselves.

He pointed that, unfortunately, many people in Armenia are not aware
what is going on in Karabakh and generally how great is the value of
Artsakh for the Armenian people.

Summing up the results of the two-day visit, the head of the RA
delegation A.Gevorgyan and the NKR Prime-minister A.Haroutyunyan made
a promise to continue the cooperation and henceforth to establish
closer contacts between the Republic of Armenia and the Republic of
Nagorno Karabakh. "This is only the beginning, reciprocal visitings
and meetings will have a continual character and we all shall be
the witnesses of the results of this cooperation",- the NKR Prime
Minister noted.

After the conference the RA delegation departed for Shoushi and
visited the Church of Ghazanchetsots. From Shoushi the delegation
left for Yerevan.