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Nagonyi-Karabakh (Nagorno-Karabakh)
In the Soviet Area, the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region, of which the population was predominantly ethnic Armenian, within Azerbaijan in the early 1920s. Ethnic Armenian-Azeri frictions exploded into furious violence in the late 1980s and the ethnic Azeri population fled Karabakh and Armenia while ethnic Armenians fled the rest of Azerbaijan. With the break-up of the Soviet Union, in late 1991, Karabakh declared itself an independent republic under the name of Artsakh after a referendum. That de facto status remains unrecognised elsewhere

1997-98 Acting Speaker of the Azgayin Zhogov Elma Gabriyelyan
The A.Z. is the National Assembly

1997-2002 Minister of Foreign Affairs Naira Melkumian 
First Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia 1993-95, Deputy Resident Representative of Karabakh in Armenia 1995-97 and Resident Representative of Karabakh in Armenia in 1997, Advisor of the President of Nagorno-Karabakh and since 2003 Advisor of the Prime Minister of Armenia.

1997- Deputy Chairperson of the Azgayin Zhogo Emma Paulova

2007- Minister of Justice Narine Narimanyan

2007- Minister of Social Welfare Narine Astsatryan (A. Azatian)

2008- Minister of Urban Planning Anahit Vardanyan

2009- Minister of Culture and Youth Affairs Narine Aghabalyan

Last update 20.01.10