DEAUVILLE STATEMENT IS “RIGHT”
By Aghavni Haroutyunian

AZG DAILY
02-06-2011

On May 30, Ambassador of France to Armenia Henry Renault was invited
to the Information Center on NATO in Armenia. The ambassador responded
quite curtly to nearly all journalists’ questions, particularly those
questions which refer to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and different
contexts of French Co-chairing in it. The French Ambassador replied
that there is an OSCE Minsk Group French Co-chair and he is not
competent to answer those questions. On the other side the French
diplomat said that he has to demonstrate more restraint.

Though such approach is inconvenient for the media, but it is
acceptable from the point of view of the diplomacy. This could not
be said about a notorious American diplomat – OSCE Minsk Group former
American Co-chair, US present Ambassador to Azerbaijan Matthew Bryza.

Though the last has changed his position, but it seems he frequently
forgets about it, as he makes comments on Karabakh conflict. According
to the Azerbaijani mass media, Matthew Bryza once again made
commentaries for the media on the statement made by the presidents
of Russia, the USA and France on NKR conflict, when he was on a visit
to Lankaran. He repeated that the time came to think about the basic
principles of the peace agreement. Bryza noted that the Deauville
statement issued by the presidents “right from the point of view of
the stability settlement in the region”.

It is noteworthy that the US ambassadors to Armenia almost never
commented any statement or event, at the best they repeated those
statements that were already issued by the US State Secretary in the
name of the Embassy.