ARMENIAN, AZERBAIJANI DEFENSE MINISTERS NOT DISCUSS ISSUE OF "OCCUPIED" TERRITORIES
Arka News Agency, Armenia
Nov 3 2006
YEREVAN, November 3. /ARKA/. At their meeting on October 20, Armenian
and Azerbaijani Ministers of Defense Serge Sargsyan and Safar Abiyev
did not discuss the issue of Armenia’s vacating the "occupied"
territories, Press Secretary of the RA Minioster of Defense Colonel
Seyran Shahsuvaryan told ARKA.
"Abiev’s statement quoted by Azerbaijani mass media that during his
meeting with Sargsyan on October 20 the first issue raised by the
Azerbaijani Minister concerned the withdrawal of Armenian troops
from the occupied territories of Azerbaijan does not correspond to
the facts," Shahsuvaryan said.
He said that the Ministers’ meeting at the Armenian-Azerbaijani
border was held on the personal initiative of OSCE Chairman-in-Office
Andrej Kasprzic to promote mutual confidence between the Armenian
and Azerbaijani Defense Offices. Shahsuvaryan said that the Ministers
only discussed issues of maintaining the cease-fire regime and border
control. P.T. -0–