ARMENIAN MINISTER DECLINES TO COMMENT ON AZERI COUNTERPART’S REMARKS ON TALKS

Arminfo
4 May 04

YEREVAN

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has refused to comment on
the statement of Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov that
Armenia and Azerbaijan “are discussing the issue of returning
territories”.

“I don’t want to comment on these statements,” Oskanyan said today,
answering journalists’ questions within the framework of the meeting
of the group on information affairs. He added that the meeting between
the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan, Robert Kocharyan and Ilham
Aliyev, was successful enough and such meetings will be
continued. This meeting gives us the right to hope that common contact
points will be found during the negotiations, the Armenian foreign
minister added.