“It arouses regret that representatives of the Council of Europe, the organization, which is called to protect and propagate the ideals and principles of pluralistic democracy, human rights and law supremacy by means of integration processes, condemns holding of elections,” Nagorno Karabakh Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosian said when commenting on Vuk Jeremic’s statement on forthcoming presidential elections in the NKR. “They cast doubt on the election institute itself as an important element of democracy, which contradicts the CoE Charter. If the European officials don’t want to contribute to the democratic processes in the NKR then we have the right to expect that they, at least, won’t impede strengthening of democratic institutes in our republic. We are deeply convinced that democratization is an important precondition for the Karabakh conflict settlement, since democracy presupposes creation of mechanisms, which allow solving any conflict exclusively in a peaceful way. This is the goal of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. It would be natural if representatives of various European structures shared this aspiration, the NKR MFA press office reports.
Recently, President of the CoE Committee of Ministers, Foreign Minister of Serbia Vuk Jeremic has stated that the upcoming elections in the NKR can’t promote the conflict settlement and will even impede the negotiation process.
