NKR Defense Minister: `The party, having problems with Nagorno Karabakh
should be ready to negotiate with it’

2008-12-30 10:34

Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic

`Nagorno Karabakh is a sovereign state, which solves its issues on its
own’, the NKR Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Movses Hakobyan
stated at the press-conference devoted to the summing up of the year.

Welcoming the Armenian-Azerbaijani-Russian declaration as a document,
in which the idea of solving the Nagorno Karabakh issue by peaceful
means is fixed, the NKR Defense Minister noted: `No state can sign a
document instead of us. If someone wants to make relations with us,
including Azerbaijan, it should recognize us. The party, having
problems with the NKR should be ready to hold negotiations with it’.

According to him, the NKR Defense Army successfully realized its goals
in 2008 and is ready to start fulfilling the tasks of 2009.