‘USUAL MEETING OF A NON-NEGOTIATING PROCESS’: ALAVERDYAN ON SOCHI MEETING

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16:52 ~U 27.01.10

"The usual meeting of a process of non-negotiatons" is how Heritage
Party MP Larisa Alaverdyan referred to the recent meeting between the
presidents of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia in Sochi, while speaking
at a press conference today.

"That process, in which no officials from the Republic of
Nagorno-Karabakh participate, cannot be considered a negotiation.

Presidents are free and can visit any country they so choose,"
she noted.

Alaverdyan added that she had no expectations from that meeting.

The other participant in today’s press conference, Republican Party
of Armenia MP Hovhannes Sahakyan, in turn, said that even though no
document was signed during that meeting, the Armenian side considers
the meeting to be positive, taking into account Russian Minister
of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov’s statement that a preamble to
a document on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has
been agreed upon, and that Nagorno-Karabakh, as an interested party,
must participate in the negotiations.

It’s important to note, however, that Lavrov didn’t mention
Nagorno-Karabakh’s participation in the talks in his statement.