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    HEAD OF PARLIAMENT: NKR WILL PARTICIPATE IN NEGOTIATIONS ON KARABAKH REGULATION SOMETIME

    /ARKA/
    JUNE 10, 2011
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, June 10. /ARKA/. Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) will
    sooner or earlier participate in negotiation process on regulation
    of Karabakh conflict, considers the Chairman of National Assembly of
    NKR Ashot Ghulyan.

    "Today the largest enemy of independent participation of NKR in this
    process is Azerbaijan. However, I consider that it is conditioned
    by the wish of Azerbaijan and as it is fixed in the main documents
    of OSCE Minsk Group and Budapest summit, Karabakh will participate
    in negotiations sometime", he said to the journalists in the frames
    of eighth meeting of Armenian-Karabakh committee on inter-parliament
    cooperation in Yerevan.

    After the last meeting of NKR president Bako Sahakyan with co-chairmen
    it was stated that NKR sees its participation in all the phases of
    negotiation process.

    Today, significant activation of negotiation process is observed as
    in the past there have also been active phases of the process which
    seemed to be close to the solution of the conflict.

    Answering the question whether there are contradictions between Armenia
    and NKR regarding the document being on the table of negotiations,
    Ghulyan said that Karabakh parliament in 2008 had a political
    announcement where it said that NKR has some provisions regarding
    Madrid principles, "however, as these elements are regularly changed,
    it is difficult to speak about the situation today in the context of
    their acceptability".

    "However, the position remained unchanged and we insist on our
    provisions", he said.

    Speaking about the expectations on the issue of recognizing NKR by
    Armenia, Ghulyan said that "we can achieve relevant position through
    discussions on inter-parliamentary level and consultations with
    various bodies of authorities".

    Karabakh conflict started in 1988 after announcement of coming out of
    Nagorno- Karabakh from Azerbaijan. On December 10, 1991 referendum took
    place in Nagorno- Karabakh where 99.89% agreed to become independent
    from Azerbaijan. On May 12, 1994 military actions were terminated in
    the zone. About 25-30 thousand people died from each side and about
    1 million had to leave their houses.

    Cease-fire continues till now. From 1992 till present negotiations
    are conducted on peaceful regulation of the conflict in the frames of
    Minsk Group of OSCE, co-chairmen of which are USA, Russia and France.

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