YEREVAN. - According to the international organization Freedom House, Nagorno-Karabakh is a more democratic state than Azerbaijan.  

MP of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA), Artak Zakaryan, who is also the Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, said the aforementioned at the National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday.

In the rating Freedom of the World 2017. Nagorno-Karabakh has been named a partly free state, whereas Azerbaijan was included among not free states.

One of the examples of the political orientation of Azerbaijan was the appointment of Mehriban Aliyeva, Ilham Aliyev’s wife, to the post of the Vice President. Former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Richard Kauzlarich, called this a step towards becoming monarchy, Zakaryan recalled.

In Nagorno-Karabakh the security forces are an important part of the balance  between peace guarantees and stability. This becomes even more important considering that in the current interstate relations the capacity building is considered to be important in terms of peace in conflict and post-conflict regions.

“We thus urge the international community to consider the state building in Nagorno-Karabakh as a factor of regional security,” Zakaryan said.