‘ELECTIONS’ IN KARABAKH HAVE NO OFFICIAL STATUS

news.az
May 17 2010
Azerbaijan

Ali Hasanov Chief of the public policy department of the presidential
administration has spoken about the plans of separatists to hold the
so-called "elections".

‘The "elections" held by the separatist regime of Karabakh have no
official status and cannot be recognized on the official level,
said chief of the public policy department of the presidential
administration of Azerbaijan, Ali Hasanov, while voicing his attitude
to the plans of Nagorno Karabakh separatists to hold the so-called
"parliamentary elections’ on May 23.

‘The Foreign Ministry has already voiced an official protest in
this connection. We have been voicing our negative attitude to the
‘elections’ held there for already many years and we consider that
unless the status of Karabakh is defined and Azerbaijani refugees
return there, the elections held there cannot have any official status
or recognized on the official level’, he said.

According to him, the so-called "parliamentary elections" serve the
internal political interests of the separatist regime.

‘They also deepen the problem of the Azerbaijani state and complicate
the process of return of the Azerbaijani residents to Nagorno
Karabakh’, Hasanov said.