RA MOD REFUTED SAFAR ABIYEV’S STATEMENT
DeFacto Agency, Armenia
Nov 2 2006
RA MOD has refuted Azeri Defense Minister Safar Abiyev’s statement
circulated by the Azeri mass media, according to which October 20, in
the course of a meeting with his Armenian colleague the Azerbaijan’s
Minister raised the issue of "the Armenian troops’ withdrawal from
the occupied Azeri territories".
According to the information DE FACTO received at the RA MOD, the
issue of the Armenian troops’ pullout from the territories controlled
by the NKR had not been discussed. Serge Sargsyan and Safar Abiyev
considered only the border’s control and the cease-fire’s maintenance.
To remind, RA and AR Defense Ministers’ meeting was initiated by
the OSCE Chair-in-Office’s Personal Representative Andrzey Kasprzyk
within the frames of the measures targeted at raising mutual confidence
between the parties. The meeting was held October 20 on the Ijevan –
Ghazakh sector of the Armenian-Azeri border. The meeting’s goal was
to discuss the issues referring to the control of the border and the
maintenance of the cease-fire.