ArmenPress
July 27 2004

ARMENIAN FM DENIES RUMORS ABOUT HANDING THREE REGIONS TO AZERBAIJAN

YEREVAN, JULY 27, ARMENPRESS: Armenian foreign minister Oskanian
denied Monday rumors that Armenia was going to hand three of several
Azeri regions, now under the control of Armenian troops, back to
Azerbaijan, describing them as “groundless.” “It is excluded because
the main focus in Nagorno Karabagh talks today is on its political
status and unless it is specified the return of these regions is out
of the question,” Oskanian told a second Pan-Armenian Youth
Conference in a resort town of Tsaghkadzor.
The minister said such rumors should not be trusted because they
may be resulting from political speculations. He, however, did not
deny the circulating allegations within the Council of Europe, spread
by Azerbaijan that these lands are being used as a nuclear waste
dump, for trafficking and terrorism, but said that the ministry has
detailed and grounded answers to such allegations and that it will
use the first opportunity to present them.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress