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ACCORDING TO DAVID SHAHNAZARIAN, ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DISTORTS FACTS
Noyan Tapan
http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116326
Au g 7, 2008
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Representative of People's Movement
(PM) David Shahnazarian accused the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of lying.
During the August 7 press conference, he presented to reporters a
document that the RA MFA had sent to a number of mass media outlets,
recommending that the information in that document be added at the
bottom of their publications on the Karabakh conflict. According to
the document, the Karabakh conflict began in 1991 when under the
pretext of checking the passport regime, Azerbaijan together with
the Soviet KGB committed ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population,
which resulted in deaths and material losses.
D. Shahnazarian considered this information spread by the RA MFA as
illiteracy. In his words, the conflict started in 1988 when Azerbaijan
responded to the well-known decision of the Supreme Council of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region by committing violence, while the
war started in 1991. D. Shahnazarian said that the above mentioned
document of the RA MFA does not mention the decision taken at the OSCE
Budapest Summit in 1994, by which Karabakh is recognized as a full
and equal party in the negotiations on the conflict. D. Shahnazarian
advised the mass media not to use this document.
As for appointment of Shavarsh Kocharian as deputy foreign minister,
D. Shahnazarian said that the authorities still expect that being
familiar with European structures, S. Kocharian may help cover up
the authorities' crimes there.
Noyan Tapan
http://www.nt.am/news.php?shownews=116326
Au g 7, 2008
YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. Representative of People's Movement
(PM) David Shahnazarian accused the RA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
of lying.
During the August 7 press conference, he presented to reporters a
document that the RA MFA had sent to a number of mass media outlets,
recommending that the information in that document be added at the
bottom of their publications on the Karabakh conflict. According to
the document, the Karabakh conflict began in 1991 when under the
pretext of checking the passport regime, Azerbaijan together with
the Soviet KGB committed ethnic cleansing of the Armenian population,
which resulted in deaths and material losses.
D. Shahnazarian considered this information spread by the RA MFA as
illiteracy. In his words, the conflict started in 1988 when Azerbaijan
responded to the well-known decision of the Supreme Council of the
Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region by committing violence, while the
war started in 1991. D. Shahnazarian said that the above mentioned
document of the RA MFA does not mention the decision taken at the OSCE
Budapest Summit in 1994, by which Karabakh is recognized as a full
and equal party in the negotiations on the conflict. D. Shahnazarian
advised the mass media not to use this document.
As for appointment of Shavarsh Kocharian as deputy foreign minister,
D. Shahnazarian said that the authorities still expect that being
familiar with European structures, S. Kocharian may help cover up
the authorities' crimes there.