KARABAKH ELECTION
Dawn, Pakistan
July 21 2007
STEPANAKERT (Azerbaijan), July 20: A presidential election in
Azerbaijan’s breakaway region of Nagorny Karabakh was won by a former
head of security for the territory, Bako Sahakian, election officials
said on Friday.
Sahakian won 85 per cent of the vote at Thursday’s polls in the
unrecognised territory, the central election commission said after
all votes had been counted.
His nearest rival, deputy foreign minister Masis Maylian, came a
distant second with 12 per cent of the vote.
The results were preliminary, with final confirmation expected on
Saturday.
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