YURI MERZLYAKOV ACCUSES ARMENIAN JOURNALISTS OF DISTORTING HIS WORDS
APA
March 30 2010
Azerbaijan
"I have not said that Armenia does not agree to four points of the
Madrid principles"
Baku – APA. Russian co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov
refuted the statements made in Khankendi on his behalf. APA reports
that the co-chair said journalists’ distorted his views.
"Information must be given as it is, not as commented by journalists
in Khankendi," he said.
Commenting on the statement that the sides reached a common agreement
on the Madrid principles with the exception of four points, Merzlyakov
said he had not made such a statement in Khankendi.
"I did not say so," he said.
Yuri Merzlyakov refuted it at the meeting with Armenian Foreign
Minister Edward Nalbandian.
According to Armenian media, Yuri Merzlyakov told journalists in
Khankendi that Armenia did not agree to some points of the updated
Madrid principles.
"Armenian side said they do not agree to some points. But we do not
inflame the situation, some months ago Armenia accepted the Madrid
principles, Azerbaijan refused them. We have done much to achieve
coordinated results."
The mediator said common agreement had been reached on the Madrid
proposals with the exception of four points. Later, the co-chair said
the Armenian journalists had distorted his words.