THEY CONDUCT AN ORDINARY LIFE IN KARABAKH
NANO ARGHUTYAN

LRAGIR.AM
12:45:42 – 20/04/2009

The Nagorno-Karabakh topic became one of the central ones in the
world politics. If Armenia and Azerbaijan come to an agreement in
this connection a huge territory will be unblocked connecting Europe
and Asia. Though, the Karabakhi residents are not asked any question
in this connection by "the creators of their destiny".

At the same time, life in Karabakh continues to its normal course. In
greater part, due to the fact that they have little information on the
negotiation process and the Karabakhi government assures the population
that the conflict will not be settled without them anyway. "Let them
come to an agreement, unless we put our "signature", no decision will
be made", state the representatives of the ruling circles, although
they understand that the question is a little different.

So, the Karabakhi people care about the settlement less than the
others. They deal with domestic questions, try to struggle against the
crisis and even the corruption. Lately, the office of the prosecutor
general was found out to have brought 11 criminal cases related to the
corruption. And, on these days it was stated about a criminal case
against an official of the military commissariat who took a bribe
from a conscript. Some information came on a criminal case brought
against the leadership of a Stepnakert branch of a major bank, who
misappropriated hundreds of million drams.

Questions on the demography are also actively discussed. The ministry
of social security worked out a conception of demographic security
which includes points both on the natural and the mechanical increase
of the population.

The measures for the natality promotion have been launched since 2008,
serious financial assistance is provided for newly formed families
and families with more than 3 children. But, the most important is
that they decided to revise the point on the mechanical increase of
the population. If, until today the repopulation was being conducted
irregularly, so there has been worked out a state program which is
being implemented in Shahumyan region. According to the program, people
who decided to reside in Nagorno-Karabakh are allocated 1 million drams
in the form of techniques, cattle, loans, contribution. The Social
Security ministry of Nagorno-Karabakh discusses the applications
arrived from Russia, Central Asia, Javakhk, Greece, and the regions
of Armenia.

Sure, there is some factor of risk which both the authors of the
program and people waning to reside in Karabakh admit, but if you do
not control your territory, someone else will take possession of it.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress