News - Karabakh ex-official: No president has power to dissolve republic formed by people, with referendum

Artak Beglaryan, former Minister of State of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), reflected on the decree signed Thursday by the Artsakh President to dissolve the Artsakh Republic. “Artsakh President’s decree on dissolving the Republic is illegal & illegitimate: “1. No President has the power to dissolve the Republic formed by the people with referendum; “2. That decree was signed as a result of Azerbaijani harsh aggression & threat of force. “It’s null & void,” Beglaryan wrote on X—former Twitter.