Interfax, Russia
Sept 4 2008

Moscow sees no parallels between S. Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno-
Karabakh – Lavrov

MOSCOW Sept 4

Moscow does not see any parallels between the situation surrounding
South Ossetia and Abkhazia and that in Nagorno-Karabakh, said Russian
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"There are no parallels between the situation surrounding South
Ossetia and Abkhazia on the one side and the Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement process on the other," Lavrov said at a press conference
following a CSTO ministerial meeting on Thursday.

"In the case of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the [Georgian President
Mikheil] Saakashvili regime was seeking to undermine all negotiating
formats and settlement mechanisms that had earlier been agreed upon
between the parties, regularly resorted to provocative acts against
civilians and peacekeepers, and was eager to change the situation in
the security zones that had been set up in the early 1990s," Lavrov
said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress