AROUND 50 PROTESTERS RALLY IN YEREVAN DEMANDING NO CONCESSION TO AZERBAIJAN ON KARABAKH

Interfax
Jan 20 2009
Russia

Some 50 people rallied outside the Armenian Foreign Ministry demanding
to meet with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and not
"to cede a single inch of land to Azerbaijan" in the Nagorno-Karabakh
settlement.

"Today the issue is not about resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,"
said Zhirair Sefilian, a coordinator of the Protection of Liberated
Territories movement and one of the organizers of the action.

"I see no element of settlement. The parties do not speak about the
settlement. The issue is about the competition between two superpowers.

The issue is about who should control the region," he said.

The protesters, however, failed to meet with the minister.

The action took place against the backdrop of a visit of the co-
chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group for Nagorno-Karabakh settlement
to Yerevan. Mediators will meet with the Armenian president and the
foreign minister on Tuesday.

Nalbandian said on Monday that Armenia will continue the talks in
light of the latest statements made in Moscow and Helsinki.