Masis Mayilyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Artsakh, has announced that he will participate as a candidate in the presidential election to be held in 2020.
He wrote this on his Facebook page, noting that his August 13 post on Facebook, according to which he considered participation in the election likely, had received a positive response in Armenia, Artsakh, and the diaspora.
“The discussions held with the citizens of Artsakh, political and public circles, the governmental and political circles of Armenia, and national figures of the diaspora have shown that the necessary preconditions exist for making a decision to put forward my candidacy in the upcoming presidential election in Artsakh.
Since the preconditions already in place guarantee the successful organization of the 2020 election and inspire confidence in the effective implementation of various programs for the development of Artsakh, I have decided to put forward my candidacy”:
