We, the people of Artsakh:

• filled with the spirit of freedom;
• realizing the dream of our ancestors and the natural right of people to lead a free and secure life in the Homeland and to create;
• showing a firm will to develop and defend the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh formed on September 2, 1991 on the basis of the right of self-determination and proclaimed independent by a referendum conducted on December 10, 1991;as a free, sovereign state of citizens with equal rights, where a human being, his life and security, rights and freedoms are of supreme value,