YURI MERZLYAKOV CASTS LIGHT ON WRONG QUOTING

Aysor
March 30 2010
Armenia

OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov of the Russian Federation
denied statements that he had said of Armenian side and its agreement
on the Madrid Document, followed by partial rejection later.

In particular, Radio Liberty quoted Yuri Merzlyakov as saying "Armenia
agreed before with proposals by OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs, delivered
in the Madrid Document, but now says that is partially waving away."

Referring to this, Merzlyakov said: "One should quote what was said,
but not the interpretations." He added: "There is even a transcript
of my saying, where word for word is quoted my saying."

When asked about another quoting, as if he had said of the sides’
agreement on Madrid Documents, except document’s four points,
Merzlyakov said: "This is not true; I haven’t voiced these words."

"These were not any additions to the Madrid Document; these were
proposals on basic principles, which were delivered to the sides,
but were still not accepted; this is a working process," he said,
when asked about "new Madrid Document."

When asked whether any proposal is to be delivered at the
Sargsyan-Aliev meeting in Astana, Merzlyakov said that journalists
should apply to the side, that initiated the meeting; that is, the OSCE
Chairman-in-Office, Kazakhstan’s Foreign Minister Kanat Saudabayev,
not the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chairs.