President Bako Sahakyan of the Republic of Mountainous Karabakh today convened a working government session to analyze the activities of the RMK Foreign Ministry in 2008 and to review the action plan for 2009. Those in attendance were RMK Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosyan, permanent representatives of the republic overseas and the head of the International Cooperation Center attached to the foreign ministry. In his speech President Sahakyan broached issues that should become the basis for further activities of the foreign ministry and particularly noted the need to further strengthen ties between the ministry’s central apparatus and the permanent representation missions, to reorganize the work of the missions, to deepen cooperation with local Armenian communities and with political circles of the host nations. Bako Sahakyan also spoke about the fundamentals of the NKR foreign policy, which include commitment to the peaceful settlement of the Azerbaijani-Karabagh conflict, restoration of the full-fledged negotiation format with full participation of Artsakh as party to the talks.