ASHOT GHULIAN: ALL LEGAL ACTS OF DECLARING NKR WERE FAULTLESS

Yerkir.am
September 01, 2006

"The celebration of the 15th anniversary of the independence prove the liveliness of our statehood and that the road we chose on September 2, 1991 was right," Ashot Ghulian, the speaker of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic National Assembly, said in a live broadcast of the Karabakh Public TV, news agency Regnum reported.

Declaring an independent Nagorno Karabakh Republic during the Soviet rule was a brave move, Ghulian said.

He also said the process of declaring the NKR was faultless in terms of legitimacy.

"All the steps made and all the legal acts to declare independence were faultless, and we have never heard any criticism in this regard to date," Ghulian said. "We did everything in line with the international law and laws of the Soviet Union."

Speaking of the war and its consequences, Ghulian said that beginning 2000, a serious work has been done to overcome the war consequences and develop the economy. He also pointed to the role of the army in ensuring the country's security.