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Zakharova: It’s for Armenian Foreign Ministry to comment on meeting of Minsk Group co-chairs, Turkish FM

Panorama, Armenia
March 3 2020

The Armenian public was informed about the meeting of the OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs, Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. It remains unclear whether the Armenian Foreign Ministry was aware of the meeting, its agenda and purposes.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who was referred in Adekvad party leader Artur Danielyan’s Facebook post on the matter, urged Armenian experts and Facebook users to ask Armenian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan for comments on the meeting.

"Neither the Minsk Group nor Russia comments on the meeting, as they have similar contacts with different countries regularly," Zakharova commented, recalling that the Russian co-chair also attended the meeting.

Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan took to Twitter to react to the Karabakh remarks of the Turkish foreign minister rather than the meeting itself.

“Mevlut Cavusoglu's advice to OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is reminiscent of Luke 4:23, ‘Physician, heal thyself’,” the minister tweeted.

Meanwhile, Cavusoglu stated that the Karabakh conflict should be resolved on the basis of “Azerbaijan's territorial integrity, recognition of its international borders and sovereignty.”

It’s hard to say whether the Turkish minister will ‘heal himself’, but the important thing is for the Armenian Foreign Ministry to react to the meeting of the diplomats dealing with the Karabakh conflict settlement with the foreign minister of an unfriendly country of Armenia.

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