SARGSYAN ASKED ACADEMICIANS "NOT TO MAKE A RACKET"

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[07:20 pm] 04 June, 2007

Prior to the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents meeting in Quest,
2001, Armenian intelligentsia representatives met with President
Robert Kocharian.

A week before the meeting, Rafael Ghazaryan and Lenser Aghalovyan
had met Serge Sargsian, academician Lenser Aghalovyan informed A1+.

They reflected on army problems.

"Armenia is a small country. We cannot afford a large army. We need
at least 5 milliard to keep the army," Sargsyan said.

Then the parties spoke about Lachin corridor.

Serge Sargsyan promised to do their utmost to preserve the 20 -25-km
corridor. Serge Sargsyan asked his guests not to raise a clamour over
the other liberated territories.

Lenser Aghalovyan and Rafael Ghazaryan promised Serge Sargsian not
to keep silent in case the territories were given back.

Regarding the policy on territories, the Armenian government’s policy
shows it is ready to return the territories, Lenser Aghalovyan
says. Otherwise, there is no explanation why the territories were
plundered and were not settled. "On the very next day of occupying
Shahumyan, Azerbaijan settled it. 13 years have passed. What have
we done? Has our country decided yet to keep or to return these
territories?

Our authorities’ actions show that they have decided to return these
territories. In fact, no point has been improved compared with the
document circulated since Levon Ter-Petrosyan’s office," Lenser
Aghalovyan says.