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WILL RFE/RL'S FATE BE DECIDED IN SEPTEMBER?

Politics

“NKR authorities are elected only through elections,” the Republican Party secretary Samvel Nikoyan told press conference today. He congratulated Bako Sahakyan on the victory and voiced hope that Bako Sahakyan would do his utmost for the country’s independence and future well-being.

Samvel Nikoyan highlighted the conduct of elections and considered them an important political event and a step forward to independence.

“In my opinion Nagorno-Karabakh has taken the right path,” Samvel Nikoyan said. He declined to comment on international organisations’ statement according to which the international community doesn’t recognise NKR independence.

According to the RPA secretary, the RA Electoral Code will be subjected to changes before the presidential elections. The parliament will review the provisions on transparency and control of the funds and expenditures of candidates. Moreover, civil initiatives shouldn’t nominate candidates. They must run for presidency on their own.

Samvel Nikoyan thinks that the race will be tough as there will be numerous candidates both from the extra parliamentarian echelons and from the opposition.

In answer to Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s possible nomination Samvel Nikoyan said, “People want him to return to politics. The question is whether he wants it himself.”

To the question whether the National Assembly will consider the bills “On Television and Rado” in September, he said “It is upon the RA Government and the bill author to decide. Once they wish the NA will pass the law.”