GHUKASSIAN: NKR HOLDS ELECTIONS FOR THE WHOLE NATION AND NOT FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.07.2007 13:30 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "I am leaving the presidential post of Nagorno
Karabakh with a sense that I have done my duty," NKR President Arkadi
Ghukassian stated on July 19 after having voted in one of the polling
stations in Stepanakert. He also added, undoubtedly he did not have
time to do everything.
Commenting on a CoE representative’s statement that the structure does
not recognize the presidential elections in NKR, the President stated,
"If the international community does not recognize electoral processes
in our republic, let it offer an alternative. Or may be Ghukassian must
proclaim himself a Turkmenbashi and rule fifty years," he underlined
adding that the NKR holds elections for the whole nation and not for
the international community
Touching upon candidate Masis Mailyan’s statements on violations
during campaign, the President said he had personally acquainted
himself with them. A. Ghukassian stressed, "there is nothing serious
there". "Those are just tales, created by those who feel defeated.
Unfortunately, the black PR reached and Nagorno Karabakh from
Armenia. After all, we have rather negativism from Turkey and
Azerbaijan," he underscored.
According to A. Ghukassian, the future President of NKR will fully
take the responsibility to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
and will make every efforts to join NKR to the negotiation process,
IA Regnum reports.