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Kocharian: «My Expectations of Meeting with AzeriPresident Modest»
03.06.2006 13:44 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan’s militant statements have nearly nothing
to do with the topic under consideration. They form an impression as
if the opposing party is not to much tuned for serious decisions in
settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, Armenian President Robert
Kocharian told journalists. «We are discussing an option that, in my
opinion, will allow having a lasting peace settlement, however my
expectations of the meeting with the Azeri President are modest,»
Kocharian said.
The Armenian leader was surprised with statements of Azeri officials
that the issue should be solved within territorial integrity of
Azerbaijan and providing a certain degree of autonomy to Karabakh.
«After establishment of the UN there was no case when people, who
exercised their right to self-determination and attained de facto
independence, changed their mind and returned to being part of the
state, from which they separated. I do not understand why the Armenian
and Karabakh peoples should be the first to decide that independence
does not suit them due to some reason,» the Armenian President said,
reports Novosti-Armenia.