NKR MFA: U.S. Department of Justice report not sensational

PanARMENIAN.Net - The representative of any country abroad is financed by the State and there is nothing extraordinary in the U.S. Ministry of Justice report, said Vardan Barseghyan, Deputy Minister of NKR MFA, former head of the Standing Representative of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the USA. "From time to time we work with PR specialists. It is a regular diplomatic practice and there is nothing extraordinary in the U.S. Ministry of Justice report," Vardan Barseghyan said.



The U.S. Ministry of Justice has published a report on the activities of lobbyist companies supporting the interests of the foreign states, organizations, and private citizens of the USA for the first half-year of 2008. It is stated in the report that the Government of Nagorno-Karabakh has transferred 103.5 thousand dollars to the organization Office of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic in the USA for building contacts in lobby authorities in Washington, disseminating information regarding the issue of regulating the peace process. In addition, William Spenser, a PR specialist acting in the interests of Nagorno-Karabakh, received an unspecified sum from Vardan Barseghyan, the Standing Representative of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic to the USA, as reports Washington ProFile.