Media Alert: The Washington Post Publishes NKR Representative’s Lett

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MEDIA ALERT

DATE: October 17, 2005
TO: Media Colleagues
RE: The Washington Post publishes NKR Representative’s Letter

Today, The Washington Post published NKR Representative Vardan Barseghian’s
letter to the Editor in response to an October 5 news story entitled,
“Independent Candidates Court Anger in Azerbaijan Campaign”. Representative
Barseghian’s letter is included below:

The Washington Post
Letters to the Editor
Conflict in the Caucasus

Monday, October 17, 2005; Page A14

While reporting on the parliamentary election campaign in Azerbaijan, Philip
Kennicott misrepresented key facts about the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict [news
story, Oct. 5].

In response to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s democratic aspiration for
self-determination, Azerbaijan launched a war against Nagorno-Karabakh, not
Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh was able to take the war outside its borders,
pressuring Azerbaijan into signing the 1994 cease-fire agreement.
Nagorno-Karabakh, not Armenia, now controls some 8 percent, not 16 percent,
of Azerbaijani territory. This buffer zone between Nagorno-Karabakh and
Azerbaijan helps maintain a relative peace in the region.

VARDAN BARSEGHIAN
Representative
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Washington

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