BAKU: ARMENIA OF DISTORTING ESSENCE OF KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

Interfax News Agency
Russia & CIS General Newswire
September 5, 2006 Tuesday 2:16 PM MSK

Novruz Mamedov, foreign policy advisor of the Azerbaijani
president, has accused Vardan Oskanian, Armenian foreign minister,
of intentionally distorting the essence of the talks on settling the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

He told Interfax that Oskanian’s latest announcement that there is
a concrete document on the negotiating table based on the right to
self- determination of the Armenian population of Nagorno Karabakh
"is untrue and constitutes another provocation of the Armenian side."

"What document can he be talking about, if the talks are not producing
any results? Evidently this is a specific feature of Armenian leaders
to refer to nonexistent documents and announce false information in
an attempt to mislead the public," Mamedov said.

"The continuing process of Karabakh settlement does provide for the
self-determination of the population in Nagorno Karabakh, that is both
the Armenian and Azerbaijani communities and only in the framework
of Azerbaijan. However, for some reason Armenian leaders constantly
omit this circumstance," he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress