Azeri official unaware of defence minister’s meeting with Armenian counterpart
ITV, Azerbaijan
20 Oct 2006
The [Armenian] news agency Mediamax has quoted the press secretary
of the Armenian Defence Ministry, Seyran Shakhsuvaryan, as saying
that the Azerbaijani and Armenian defence ministers, Safar Abiyev
and Serzh Sarkisyan, today held a meeting on the front line – in the
Idzhevan-Qazax part of the border.
The report said that the meeting was held at the initiative of the
personal representative of the OSCE chairman-in-office, Andrzej
Kasprzyk, in the context of measures aimed at building confidence
between the sides. Shakhsuvaryan said that the ministers discussed
the cease-fire regime.
The head of the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry press service, Ramiz
Malikov, told "Carci" that the ministry’s press service has not
received such a report.
The Baku office of the personal representative of the OSCE
chairman-in-office, Andrzej Kasprzyk, did not confirm or deny the
report.