Armenia denies reports on return of occupied districts to Azerbaijan

Noyan Tapan news agency
7 Jul 04

YEREVAN

Reports that Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan talked during
the Istanbul meetings [on 29 June] about the possibility of returning
seven districts controlled by the Armenian armed forces – not
including Nagornyy Karabakh – are wide of the mark.

Commenting at the request of Noyan Tapan news agency on reports by the
Azerbaijani and Turkish media about Oskanyan making such a statement
during his meeting with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, the
press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Gamlet Gasparyan,
said: “Nothing of the sort has happened, this is wide of the mark.”

Such a report was published, for example, in the Turkish newspaper
Zaman which quoted Gul as saying this.