NKR DELEGATION SATISFIED WITH THE VISIT TO BERLIN
By Kim Gabrielian
AZG Armenian Daily
19/06/2008
Nagorno Karabakh
Members of NKR delegation coming back from an international conference
under heading "The role and significance of Nagorno Karabakh" organized
by Berlin European Academy on June 2-7, held a press conference on
June 17 to share their impressions of the conference.
Head of the delegation, Chairman of NKR National Assembly Ashot Ghulian
positively qualified the results of the conference. He mentioned that
the report of Hamburg University Professor Otto Lukhterhandt where
the latter expressed highly valuable viewpoints on the main essence
of Karabakh issue is worth translating and spreading.
What about the themes of the speeches delivered at the conference,
most of them were about Karabakh, but there were also speeches where
comparisons were made with Kosovo that is very important to perceive
the real nature of the conflicts, according to NA Speaker.
To the question of the journalists about the reaction of the Turkish
community of Germany against the conference Ashot Ghulian informed
that an anti-Karabakh demonstration was held the same day and though
the demonstration was permitted the Police of Berlin secured the
safety of the delegation.
In the framework of the visit, negotiations of economic sphere were
also conducted. Member of the delegation, Chairman of the Commission
on Financial-economic issues of the National Assembly Benik Bakhshiyan
mentioned that German partners are interested in herbs of Karabakh.
The NA Speaker informed the journalists that after the Berlin
conference he left for Moscow on June 9-14 where he met with several
Members of Russian State Duma. He didn’t detail the names of the MPs
but mentioned that reforms in Artsakh, legislation regulation and other
issues were discussed during the meetings. In the NKR representation of
Moscow NKR NA Speaker had meetings with several experts and discussed
possible variants on settlement of Karabakh conflict