EMBASSY: OSCE MINSK GROUP’S FRENCH CO-CHAIRMAN’S WORDS DISTORTED IN YEREVAN

Trend
March 16 2010
Azerbaijan

During his speech at the Rose-Roth" NATO Parliamentary Assembly
workshop, OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chair from France Bernard Fassier
‘s words was distorted and contracts the reality, the French Embassy
in Azerbaijan reported.

Azerbaijan cannot win in the case of a war in Nagorno-Karabakh,
Fassier was quoted as saying by the several Armenian media outlets
in Yerevan Friday.

"Azerbaijan’s victory in the case of a renewed war is impossible
because I personally know about the bravery of the Armenian and
Karabakh warriors," he said at the "Rose-Roth" NATO Parliamentary
Assembly workshop, Novosti-Armenia reported.

Fassier refutes all comments of the Armenian and Azerbaijani media
on his distorted remarks, the report says.

Fassier gave the necessary explanations to the government authorities
of both countries on the subject and they were satisfied, the
embassy said.

March 15, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov has had a
telephone conversation with OSCE Minsk Group’s co-chair from France
Bernard Fassier upon Fassier’s initiative. The minister expressed his
concern over the information spread by the Armenian and Azerbaijani
media referring to him, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Elkhan Polukhov
told Trend News.

During the conversation, Fassier said that as a co-chairman and a
military man, he can not allow such a blunder as assessing the armed
force of this or that army or country’s willingness to resolve the
conflict in a military way, Polukhov said. "Fassier said that such
a distortion of his words is unacceptable and causes his great concern.

It was also noted that during a press conference in Yerevan, he spoke
in French and was provided with a very bad translation into English
and Russian languages of his speech," he added.