AS OF THE MOMENT MEETING OF THE ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FMS IN MOSCOW NOT INTENDED

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2010-03-24

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, ARMENPRESS: "As of the present moment, the March 26
meeting of Armenian and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers Edward Nalbandyan
and Elmar Mammadyarov in Moscow is not intended," spokesman for the
Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan told Armenpress. On March
26 in Moscow, the session of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers
will be summoned.

In response to the question whether an Armenian-Turkish
inter-governmental sub-committee of historians is in a stage of
formation stage, as US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has earlier
stated, T. Balayan said that the issue of the Armenian Genocide is
not a subject for discussion, and a sub-committee is intended to
set up only after the ratification of the protocols. "The issue of
the Armenian Genocide is not viewed as a subject for discussion. As
the president and foreign minister of the republic have stated many
times the fact of the genocide is not subject for discussion; Armenia
has not discussed and will never discuss the fact of the genocide,"
T. Balayan pointed out.