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  • NKR Pres: `In need, ready to transfer hostilities to heart of Azerb'

    Regnum news agency, Russia
    October 25 2008



    The president of Nagornyy Karabakh: `In case of need, we are ready to
    transfer hostilities into the heart of Azerbaijan'


    "Over the recent years, we have said time and again that independence
    and security of the NKR [the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic] are not a
    subject to speculations and bargaining. We have always been for a
    peaceful resolution to the Karabakh problem, but not at the expense of
    our independence and freedom. We have paid the highest price for
    independence and freedom and therefore, we have no right to jeopardize
    it," Bako Saakyan, president of Nagornyy Karabakh, supreme commander
    in chief, told journalists in Stepanakert [Xankandi] in a comment on
    today's tactical exercises of the NKR defence army, according to a
    Regnum correspondent.

    Having highly assessed the outcome of the exercises, the head of the
    Karabakh state said: "Our armed forces have again displayed high
    combat readiness and we again convinced ourselves that actions
    demonstrated in the drills today can be applied in case if the
    Azerbaijani army tries to settle a score with us by means of force. As
    the NKR defence minister said today, in case of need our units are not
    only ready to switch hostilities to the territory of the enemy but
    also transfer them into the heart of Azerbaijan."

    In reply to a question on the fate of the territories occupied in the
    course of the hostilities, the NKR president said: "Those territories
    were liberated in early 1990s and as of now, they are fixed in the
    constitution of the NKR and are classified as a "security zone". Bako
    Saakyan said that Stepanakert was ready to start negotiations with
    Baku without any preconditions. "The current delay in the resolution
    of the problem is conditioned upon the fact that we are not a
    fully-fledged party in the negotiations," Bako Saakyan said, adding
    that all the issues should be resolved with involvement of the people
    of Nagornyy Karabakh.

    We should say that Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, on a two-day
    visit to Nagornyy Karabakh, accompanied by Armenian Defence Minister
    Seyran Ohanyan, observed the military exercises of the NKR defence
    army.

    [translated]
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