NEGOTIATIONS SUCCESS DEPENDS ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH REPUBLIC’S PARTICIPATION

Tert.am
11:24 ~U 16.12.09

RA President Serzh Sargsyan welcomed yesterday the delegation from
Nagorno-Karabakh’s parliament (National Assembly), led by Parliamentary
Speaker Ashot Ghulyan. In Yerevan, the delegation participated in
the 7th meeting of the inter-parliamentary committee on cooperation
between the Republic of Armenia and Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh
legislative bodies.

Greeting the Nagorno-Karabakh parliamentarians and wishing success in
the joint work with Armenia’s National Assembly, Sargsyan announced:
"Everyone must know that the people of Nagorno-Karabakh have been
obliged to protect the right to live freely with the price of blood
during the war forced upon them, and that the people of Karabakh
consider that they have been able, on one hand, to restore the justice
that was destroyed during the violent Stalinian period, while, on
the other hand, to secure the necessary ideal conditions for their
physical survival."

The Armenian president also turned his attention to the possibilities
of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, saying, "It hasn’t
been only one time that we have announced that, in the outcome of
Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations, we have to find such solutions whose
implementation won’t bring about new displacements and new ethnic
cleansing… But we must also bravely know that the negotiating road
to solving the Nagorno-Karabakh issue can bring about success only in
the case when the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh directly participates
in the negotiations."