ARMENIAN PARTY POSITIVELY ESTIMATES KOCHARIAN-ALIYEV WARSAW MEETING AND REFUTES STATEMENTS ABOUT RETURNING REGIONS TO AZERBAIJAN

YEREVAN, MAY 18, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian party positively
estimates the last meeting between Armenian and Azeri Presidents
in Warsaw. This was one more step forward in the direction of
settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Hamlet Gasparian, RA
Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson, declared this while estimating
by the request of mass media the last meeting between Armenian and
Azeri Presidents held within the framework of the Warsaw summit of
heads of CE country-members. The Presidents’ meeting, the spokesperson
mentioned, enables to continue discussing the issue at Ministers level,
within the framework of Prague process. According to Hamlet Gasparian,
the Warsaw meeting was also positively estimated by the international
community, in particular, by OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairman countries. He
reported that the Minsk Group Co-chairmen are already working in the
direction of organizing the forthcoming round of negotiations. As for
Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadiarov’s statement as if “Armenia
is ready to return 7 occupied regions, the problem is only in time,”
according to the FM spokesperson, “Azeri party’s statements about
return of regions controlled by Armenian forces don’t correspond to
reality at all.”