Meeting of leaders of unrecognized states not on Karabakh’s agenda – minister

Mediamax news agency
17 Mar 05

YEREVAN

A meeting of the presidents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagornyy
Karabakh and the Dniester region in Sukhumi this April “is not on the
foreign political agenda of the Nagornyy Karabakh Republic (NKR)”.

This is what NKR Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan said today, when
asked to comment on Russian media reports that the leaders of the
unrecognized republics will meet in Sukhumi this April, Mediamax
reports.

“The NKR leadership has all the necessary technical resources to
inform society about its plans independently,” Arman Melikyan
stressed.

The Interfax news agency today disseminated a report quoting “informed
sources” that the leaders of Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagornyy
Karabakh, Sergey Bagapsh, Eduard Kokoiti and Arkadiy Gukasyan
respectively, met in the Russian capital during the evening of 16
March.

According to Interfax, “the leaders of the three republics agreed to
hold a meeting of the presidents of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagornyy
Karabakh and the Dniester region in Sukhumi this April”.