ArmInfo.Artsakh is now facing the most serious political, economic and humanitarian challenges, Armenian MP Gegham Manukyan stated in Parliament on September 11.
According to him, on September 9, the Artsakh Parliament, having shown determination, almost unanimously, with 22 votes "for" voted for the election of Samvel Shahramanyan as the President of the Republic. Meanwhile, as the oppositionist noted, the congratulatory address of the National Assembly of Armenia to the elected president of Artsakh is not even on the agenda of the session of the Armenian parliament. "The Armenian people congratulated the new head of the Artsakh state, some countries, represented by Ukraine and Turkey, condemned their holding, and, oddly enough, there is still no reaction from official Yerevan," Manukyan said.
The newly elected president of Artsakh received congratulations from the first and second president of Nagorno-Karabakh , Arkady Ghukasyan and Bako Sahakyan, second, third and fourth presidents, Robert Kocharyan, Serzh Sargsyan and Armen Sarkissian, as well as Catholicos Garegin II.