Round Table Entitled "Situation In South Caucasus And Perspectives O

ROUND TABLE ENTITLED "SITUATION IN SOUTH CAUCASUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF NKR’S RECOGNITION" HELD IN STEPANAKERT

DeFacto Agency
Sept 11 2008
Armenia

STEPANAKERT, 11.09.08. DE FACTO. A Round table entitled "Situation
in South Caucasus and Perspectives of NKR’s Recognition" was held in
Stepanakert on the initiative of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic National
Assembly’s Standing Committee on Foreign Relations.

MPs, representatives of various political forces participated in the
Round table. The representatives of power’s executive branch in the
person of NKR FM Georgy Petrosian and heads of MFA various departments
were also invited to the Round table. The discussion was held behind
closed doors.

According to the NKR Parliament’s Press Office, addressing the audience
NKR FM presented qualitatively new realities created in the Southern
Caucasus, position of NKR executive branch, as well as possible steps
proceeding from NKR foreign policy’s priorities. Then he answered
questions of political organizations’ heads.

NKR Parliament Speaker Ashot Gulian, a number of MPs delivered speech
at the Round table; representatives of various parliamentary forces
also expressed their opinion. A decision to continue discussions in the
near future and invite representatives of NGOs and analytical centers’
experts to elaborate a more realistic position on the issue was made.

Upon discussions’ results NKR FM and Vahram Atanesian, the head of
NKR Standing Parliamentary Committee for External Relations, answered
journalists’ questions.