Public Television of Armenia
March 25 2010

Armenian leader denies reports on "arrangements" in Karabakh talks

[Presenter-read report] Both Armenian-Turkish [normalization] process
and an option of mutual concessions in the Karabakh issue will not be
secret, and the last word will be reserved for our people, [Armenian]
President [Serzh] Sargsyan has said in Syria’s city of Aleppo. The
president said conversations on some secret arrangements and
concessions are a tale, which has been repeating for long years
already

[Sargsyan speaking at an outdoor meeting] We are not ready for
unilateral concessions on the Karabakh issue. We say "yes", this issue
is a painful issue, this issue has deep roots, this issue may demand
long time for settlement, but this issue can be solved exclusively on
the basis of mutual concessions and of course in a peaceful way. If we
see mutual concessions which Azerbaijanis suggest, when there are such
suggestions, dear compatriots, – when we are suggested an option of
the settlement – we will never keep this option in secret. And we will
publicize this option by all means, like [we did with]
Armenian-Turkish relations. If our people considers this solution
acceptable, then we will approve it, if not – then not. All the rest –
conversations that as if there are some secrete arrangements, [that]
there are already options of decisions, [that] they [the Armenian
authorities] have already given this and got that – all these are
tales. All these [reports] have been going on for long years already
and we cannot engage into an auction on the Karabakh issue, because
Karabakh is invaluable for all of us.