THERE IS OBVIOUS MISTAKE IN U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S REPORT, VARTAN OSKANIAN AFFIRMS
Noyan Tapan
Mar 21 2007
YEREVAN, MARCH 21, NOYAN TAPAN. U.S. State Department’s 2006 annual
report on Human Rights relates to human rights, it is not a document
expressing America’s policy and does not regard the Nagorno Karabakh
problem. Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian stated this at
the March 21 press conference.
"I have already declared that the formulation included in the report,
according to which Nagorno Karabakh is Azerbaijan’s occupied territory,
is a wrong formulation, this is one of the defects of the document
and we will present our approaches to U.S. State Department. I can
more groundedly say the following: this is an obvious mistake,"
V. Oskanian stated.
In his words, U.S. State Department admits that a wrong formulation
has been included in the report, which should not have taken place. In
the Minister’s opinion, it is clear that for purely bureaucratic
reasons it is officially difficult to make corrections there after
document’s publishing. He said that the American side has promised
the Armenian side "to introduce some clarity to this issue, which
will be done either in the form of a statement or on the web-site of
State Department." "I again confirm that as a result of my contacts
an agreement has been reached that this is an obvious mistake and
they will try to correct it," RA Foreign Minister said.
As regards the statement of U.S. Embassy in Armenia, according to which
there is no mistake in the report, V. Oskanian said that the Embassy
spread that statement before his negotiations with the American side.