Armenia denies being ready to return land to Azerbaijan

YEREVAN. May 18 (Interfax) – Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Gamlet Gasparian on Wednesday denied Azerbaijan’s claims that an
understanding has been reached on the return of several Azerbaijani
areas controlled by Armenians to Azerbaijan.

“This statement is clearly untrue,” Gasparian told Interfax.

Earlier, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammedyarov said that
Armenia had agreed to free seven districts around Nagorno-Karabakh.