"I am leaving the presidential post of Nagorno Karabakh with a sense that I have done my duty," NKR President Arkadi Ghukassian stated on July 19 after having voted in one of the polling stations in Stepanakert. He also added, undoubtedly he did not have time to do everything.

Commenting on a CoE representative's statement that the structure does not recognize the presidential elections in NKR, the President stated, "If the international community does not recognize electoral processes in our republic, let it offer an alternative. Or may be Ghukassian must proclaim himself a Turkmenbashi and rule fifty years," he underlined adding that the NKR holds elections for the whole nation and not for the international community

Touching upon candidate Masis Mailyan's statements on violations during campaign, the President said he had personally acquainted himself with them. A. Ghukassian stressed, "there is nothing serious there". "Those are just tales, created by those who feel defeated. Unfortunately, the black PR reached and Nagorno Karabakh from Armenia. After all, we have rather negativism from Turkey and Azerbaijan," he underscored.

According to A. Ghukassian, the future President of NKR will fully take the responsibility to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict and will make every efforts to join NKR to the negotiation process, IA Regnum reports.