Bako Sahakyan: Karabakh people wish to live in free and sovereign historical motherland

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Assuming high and responsible post of the President of Nagorno Karabakh Republic I would like to thank in the first place our people for active participation in the July 19 presidential elections and my constituency for confidence. I appreciate the position of those citizens who voted for other presidential candidates too. This means that they are concerned about development and progress in our country. These visions will be definitely taken into consideration," said NKR president elect Bako Sahakyan during his inaugural address.



"The past elections once again vindicated a unified will of the people of Artsakh to live in a free and sovereign historical motherland. Simultaneously, they demonstrated a decisive role of the country's public sector in forming the state's supreme authority. In the coming five years we will continue to build free and prosperous country securing for this very purpose cooperation between all strata of our society.



Taking the opportunity I would like to thank all foreign state and non-governmental structures, international organizations, mass media that carried out observation of the July 19 elections and covered this important for our state event. The assessments of the observers will substantially contribute to the rating of our country as an effectively functioning state worthy of international recognition. We also highly appreciate their remarks and suggestions, which will be taken into consideration in elaborating further democratization of our country.



These assessments prove that the foundation of our independent statehood is quite firm. In this context I would like to express my respect and gratitude to the first President of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, President of the Republic of Armenia Robert Kocharian to his merit and contribution to NKR's declaration as an independent state, effective organization of the republic's defense against aggression, development of state institutions, economic recovery in the first postwar years, as well as for his input in just settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict



Achievements in the recent period gave me a right to thank on behalf of people second president of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic Arkady Ghukasyan. Under his leadership in the last ten years our country registered considerable progress in carrying out socioeconomic reforms, democratization of public and political life, and finally adopted its basic law - the Constitution. We are confident that Mr. Ghukasyan will continue to use reach experience of state, political and national figure for the interests of the Motherland," he said.