AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT’S PRESS SECRETARY: ARMENIA TRIES TO USE CHANGES TO REPORT OF US DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR ITS OWN AMBITIONS

Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
April 26 2007

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend A.Ismaylova / Azerbaijan President’s
Press Secretary, Azer Gasimov, accuses Armenia of using the fact of
changes to the report of the US Department of State for their own
ambitions. On 26 April the US Department of State restored the initial
text of the report regarding human rights in Armenia. The sentence
‘Armenian Armed Forces occupies large part of Azerbaijani territories
surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh’ was replaced with a sentence ‘Armenia
continues to occupy the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh
and seven surrounding Azerbaijani territories’.

Gasimov said that the agencies that served them received a relevant
warning and Azerbaijan showed its severe position on the event.

He assessed as a positive fact the repeat changes to the report where
official Washington once again recognized that Armenia continues
to occupy the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and seven
surrounding Azerbaijani territories.