Karabakh authorities to spend more funds on regional development

Karabakh authorities to spend more funds on regional development

Mediamax news agency
3 Dec 04

YEREVAN

A session of the Security Council chaired by the president of the
Nagornyy Karabakh Republic [NKR], Arkadiy Gukasyan, discussed on the
evening of 2 December in Stepanakert the results of the telethon held
in the USA to raise funds for the construction of the North-South
highway in the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic. More than 11m dollars were
raised in the telethon.

The NKR president confirmed that the funds raised during the telethon
will be used to complete the construction of the North-South highway,
which is of strategic importance to Nagornyy Karabakh, Mediamax news
agency reports.

Arkadiy Gukasyan instructed the participants in the session to start
preparations for the next telethon. He said that it is necessary to
channel the money raised during the next telethon into the development
of Mardakert District in the north of the NKR, which suffered more
damage from Azerbaijan’s military aggression. Gukasyan said that in
the future, the telethons should be directed at the development of
Sushi and other districts of Nagornyy Karabakh.

Speaking about the political results of his visit to the USA, the NKR
president noted that representatives of the diaspora and Armenian
political parties operating abroad expressed their readiness to lobby
more actively for the position of Nagornyy Karabakh in various
international structures.