GEORGIA DENIES REPORTS ON PRESIDENT’S COMMENT ON AZERI-ARMENIAN CONFLICT
Prime-News news agency
2 Oct 04
Tbilisi, 2 October: Official Tbilisi has denied reports alleging that
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili made a harsh statement about
Nagornyy Karabakh during his telephone conversation with Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Erdogan in late September.
Citing the presidential press service, the Georgian foreign ministry’s
press service has said that during the telephone conversation the
parties noted the need for a dialogue between Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Georgia, but they did not discuss the issue of Nagornyy Karabakh.
France Press and the Turkish Anatolia news agency had reported that
during the telephone conversation Mikheil Saakashvili said:
“Karabakh’s occupation must end in order to settle the conflict
between Armenia and Azerbaijan”.
An article in the Turkish Daily News says that Mikheil Saakashvili and
Recep Erdogan discussed Georgian-Turkish relations and conflicts in
the Caucasus.