SARGSYAN RAISED ISSUES ALREADY AGREED UPON UNDER KOCHARIAN’S PRESIDENCY, SAYS BAKU

Tert.am
12:51 17.10.09

The last meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents, which took
place in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, did not give cause for
optimism, because the Armenian side suddenly began to discuss the
issues that were agreed two to three years ago, Foreign Minister of
Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov told Azerbaijani news source Trend News.

"We understand that there is a rule that unless everything is agreed,
it means nothing was agreed, but it is impossible to move if to go
back and start to discuss proposals or ideas that were agreed at
least two or three years ago. This is, of course, disappointing,"
Mammadyarov said.

Mammadyarov believes that such actions by the Armenian side are
connected with the latest events in the region: the Armenian-Turkish
rapprochement.

"Maybe the Armenian side considers that if the process developed in
this regard, it is possible to freeze other issues," said the Foreign
Minister of Azerbaijan.

According to the minister, the OSCE Minsk Group should come to the
region approximately in late October – early November. "They need to
interpret what they heard in Chisinau, to think how to support the
dynamics that was objectively observed and are the most important,
to find all the correct arguments in order to explain to Armenia that
they can not open the questions that have already been agreed.

Otherwise, it will be an endless process," said Mammadyarov.