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Washington doesn’t possess information on PKK bases in Karabakh
16.02.2008 14:25 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Washington is ready to discuss the
possible presence of PKK rebels’ facilities in
Azerbaijan, said Jonathan Henick, public affairs
officer at the U.S. Embassy in Baku.

`We have little data concerning PKK activities in
Azerbaijan. But if our Azeri counterparts show
interest in the topic we are ready to discuss it,’ he
said, adding that the issue was considered at a
meeting of U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
for Counterterrorism Frank C. Urbancic and Azeri
Deputy Foreign Minister Araz Azimov in Baku.

`PKK terrorists may have fled to other territories
after the strikes in Iraq. But we don’t possess any
information about it,’ the diplomat said.

Earlier, Turkish Show TV with a reference to sources
in the Israeli intelligence reported that PKK rebels
base in Fizuli and Lachin regions.