ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN HAILS WEEK OF AZERBAIJAN IN YEREVAN
Mediamax Agency, Armenia
Dec 18 2007
Yerevan, 18 December: The conduct of the Week of Azerbaijan in Yerevan
is "a bright example of our adherence to dialogue and peace", Armenian
Foreign Ministry press secretary Vladimir Karapetyan has said.
"We have a positive attitude towards any initiative aimed at expanding
dialogue in the South Caucasus," Karapetyan said. "Such events
should not be an end in itself. We would like to see a development
and a continuation to this initiative in all the countries involved
in the project. We are sure that public diplomacy and inter-ethnic
contacts will contribute to the peaceful settlement of the Nagornyy
Karabakh conflict."
The Week of Azerbaijan opened in Yerevan on 17 December at the Mkhitar
Sebastatsi educational centre and is sponsored by the British embassy
in Yerevan.