YEREVAN DISSATISFIED WITH U.S. STATEMENTS ON KARABAKH TALKS

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS Military Newswire
June 26, 2006 Monday 6:09 PM MSK

Armenia is dissatisfied with media information about documents
discussed at Armenian-Azeri talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement.

"Should such information be published in future, Armenia may publish
all documents discussed at the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations in
the past 7 – 8 years," Armenian presidential press secretary Viktor
Sogomonian told Interfax on Monday.

His comments were made in response to a statement by Matthew J.
Bryza, deputy assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian
affairs and co-chairman of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Minsk Group.

"Provisions of the framework agreement on the Karabakh settlement
published by new co-chairman of the Minsk Group Bryza, do not reflect
the essence of the project, irrelevant comments were made," the press
secretary said.

"A draft agreement based on the ‘common state’ principle, as well
as documents discussed in Key West and a draft discussed recently
in Bucharest may be published," he said. I am sure that everything
will become obvious, because Azerbaijan rejected all three drafts,"
Sogomonian said.

Earlier, Bryza said on air on Svoboda radio station that the parties
introduced a draft framework agreement that provides for the withdrawal
of Armenian troops from Azerbaijan, as well as the normalization of
economic and diplomatic relations between the countries, the deployment
of peacekeepers and international economic assistance to the Karabakh
region. He also said that a vote on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh
is envisaged at some stage.