Armenia Vexed By Turkish President’s Statement on Karabakh
October 16, 2008

(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow – English)YEREVAN. Oct 16 (Interfax) –
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan has criticized the Turkish president
and the Azeri foreign minister’s statements on the settlement of the
conflict in Nagorno- Karabakh.
"We consider the term ‘occupied territory’ which the Turkish president used
at a session of the UN general Assembly dangerous, and think that Azeri
Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov’s statement to the effect that the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be settled in line with the logic of a UN
resolution, fully distorts the negotiation process," Sargsyan told a news
conference on Thursday.
The Turkish president and Azeri foreign minister’s speeches in the UN were a
"cold shower", as they contrasted the spirit of the previous meetings and
the earlier reached agreements, Sargsyan said.
He said he had informed U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of
Sate Condoleezza Rice in Washington of his concerns.
The Armenian prime minister also said that the U.S. leadership sees the
Minsk Group of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe as
the only format in which the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict could be settled.
"Rice said during the talks that after a discussion of this issue with her
Russian colleagues, she gained confidence that there was progress in the
talks and that serious progress would be seen after the Azeri presidential
election," Sargsyan said.