Armenia regrets Uzbek leader’s Karabakh remarks

Mediamax news agency
25 Mar 04

YEREVAN

The Armenian Foreign Ministry believes that “the Uzbek president does
not have full information about the content and format of the talks
within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group”.

Mediamax news agency reports that the press secretary of the Armenian
Foreign Ministry, Gamlet Gasparyan, said this in Yerevan today while
commenting on Uzbek President Islam Karimov’s recent statement that
“Armenia must withdraw from the occupied territories” and that the
stage-by-stage as published, actually package option for the
settlement of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict is not viable.

“Regrettably, in our opinion, the Uzbek president does not have full
information about the content and format of the talks within the
framework of the OSCE Minsk Group. Otherwise, he would have refrained
from making such a controversial statement,” Gasparyan said.