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  • OSCE Did Not Send a Letter to Kocharian, Presidential Spokesman Says

    ArmenPress
    Nov. 4, 2004

    OSCE DID NOT SEND A LETTER TO KOCHARIAN, PRESIDENTIAL SPOKESMAN SAYS

    YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 4, ARMENPRESS: A spokesman for Armenian president
    denied today allegations by a local daily Haykakan Zhamanak, which
    claimed in its November 3 issue that the Vienna-based Secretariat of
    the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) sent
    separate letters to the presidents of Armenia and several other CIS
    countries, who signed under a statement last June that was criticizing
    the OSCE for double standards which it uses when assessing democratic
    processes in the former Soviet and Western countries.
    The Armenian daily alleged that the OSCE letter told president
    Kocharian that it was appalled by defense minister Serzh Sarkisian's
    last year's remarks in the wake of presidential election that Armenians
    and Europeans have different mentality and different ideas of
    democracy.
    "I would like to disillusion the daily's correspondent, as no such
    letter was ever sent to president Kocharian," the spokesman, Ashot
    Kocharian, told Armenpress today. "Unfortunately, this was just another
    misinformation, spread by this newspaper," he said.
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