ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: THE REFERENDUM IN THE NKR WILL BE HELD IN THE PROPORTIONS OF 1998 WHEN ARMENIAN POPULATION OF KARABAKH WAS 80%

ArmInfo
2009-07-14 14:45:00

ArmInfo. The referendum on determination of Nagornyy Karabakh
status will be held in the ethic proportions of 1998 when Armenian
population of Karabakh was 80%, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister,
Shavarsh Kocharyan, said in an interview with Armenian Public TV.

‘I hope on quick joining of the NKR the negotiating process. The
points published at the OSCE web site are regarding just the NKR,
and here a question may rise why the heads of the Minsk Group co-chair
states when applying to the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, did
not apply to the president of Nagornyy Karabakh Republic, since such
an application would mean recognition of the NKR subjectiveness. But
the published points already contain fixing of such subjectiveness
after which it will be possible for the NKR to join the negotiating
process as a participant’, – Kocharyan said.

e also added that there are problems which are first of all regarding
the NKR and the challenge of the presidents of Russia, the USA and
France may promote its becoming a participant in the negotiating
process.