Georgia doesn’t recognize presidential elections in Nagorno-Karabakh- Georgian Foreign Ministry
20.07.2012,
12:47
Georgia doesn’t recognize as legitimate THE presidential elections held Thursday in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement available on the official website.
YEREVAN, July 20. /ARKA/. Georgia doesn’t recognize as legitimate the presidential elections held Thursday in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Georgian Foreign Ministry said in a statement available on the official website.
“The Georgian Foreign Ministry wishes to reaffirm the Georgian government's unequivocal support for Azerbaijan's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and does not recognize the so-called "presidential elections" which were held in Nagorno-Karabakh on the 19th of July 2012,” the statement says.
The document also states that the Georgian Foreign Ministry considers it necessary to strengthen the efforts of the international community in order to attempt to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict peacefully through a constructive dialogue between parties.
Incumbent President of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan received 66.70% of votes in the presidential elections held in Karabakh on Thursday.
The turnout totaled 73.43% as 72,833 out of the registered 98,909 constituents polled.
Over 60 observers from Russia, Armenia, the United States, France, Canada, Ireland, Poland, Cyprus, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Czech
Republic, Hungary, Austria, Bulgaria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transdniestrian Moldovan Republic monitored the elections. Dozens of journalists from Armenia and foreign countries arrived in Karabakh to cover one of the most important event in the republic.
These presidential elections were the fifth in the history of NKR. The first president of NKR was Robert Kocharyan (1994), who headed Armenian Cabinet three years later, and was elected as Armenia’s President in 1998. In 1997-2007 NKR President was Arkady Ghukasyan. Incumbent President Bako Sahakyan won the elections of July 19, 2007. The international observers and experts say any elections in Karabakh are one of the most exemplary elections in the region. -0-
