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    Polls in separatist Karabakh "better" organized than in Britain, observer
    says

    Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
    20 Jun 05

    [Presenter] Nagornyy Karabakh is a small state but it has a great
    democratic future, the head of the American observers' group (?Jim
    Huper) said. The international observers assessed the elections in
    Artsakh [Karabakh] as fair and transparent, announcing that the voting
    was held without any serious violations.

    Paul Williams, a representative of the Public International Law and
    Policy Group, announced that the elections in Artsakh were fair and
    transparent which will undoubtedly have a positive impact on the
    process of settling the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict.

    The observer from the British Helsinki Human Rights Group, Mark
    Almond, noted that the election process was democratic. Many known
    states could have followed Karabakh's example. The elections here were
    better organized than in Great Britain, he said.

    [Correspondent Vage Kostandyan from Artsakh] The fourth parliamentary
    elections in the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic deemed valid, no serious
    violations were registered, the leaders of the American, Russian and
    Great Britain observer groups told a new conference on 20 June.

    [Mark Almond, captioned in English with Armenian voice over] The
    elections proved that a system of self-determination has been
    established in Karabakh. I hope that the OSCE Minsk Group will take
    this into consideration in settling the Karabakh problem.

    [Passage omitted: chairman of the Karabakh Central Electoral
    Commission announced the preliminary results of the election]

    Vage Konstandyan, Tigran Babayan, "Aylur", Stepanakert.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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