BAKU: Armenian Leader Not To Attend NATO PA Session

ARMENIAN LEADER NOT TO ATTEND NATO PA SESSION

Assa-Irada, Azerbaijan
May 17 2006

Armenian President Robert Kocharian has refused to attend the session
of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly due in Paris May 26-30, the Assembly
told Armenian media.

The source quoted Kocharian’s spokesman Viktor Sogomonian as saying
that the decision is explained by the president’s busy work schedule.

“During the session, the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs [mediating
settlement to the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper (Nagorno)
Garabagh] are to visit the region. Moreover, the event will overlap
with the holidays in Armenia,” said Sogomonian.

The NATO PA president Pierre Lelouche earlier invited the Azeri and
Armenian leaders to participate at the spring session.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS