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Trend News Agency, Azerbaijan
March 7 2008
OSCE Rep States his Remarks on Kosovo and Karabakh Misrepresented
07.03.08 17:00
Correction: Dov Lynch, the senior adviser to the OSCE's Secretary
General, said today he had been misquoted by Azerbaijani media after
making a speech in a personal capacity at the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly meeting in Baku.
In his speech yesterday (6 March) on developments in the South
Caucasus, Lynch had said that `wider developments may impact on
regional security'.
He referred to `interpretations of the so-called Kosovo `precedent'
as a case in point, despite declarations that the Kosovo case is sui
generis'. Lynch said in the speech that `certainly, developments in
the Western Balkans may mean that there is simply less time and
attention given to the South Caucasus by external actors'.
Statements reported by several Azerbaijani news agencies and
newspapers misrepresented the comments by Lynch, mistakenly saying he
had drawn a parallel between Kosovo and the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflicts.
`It is disappointing my remarks were misrepresented,' Lynch said.
March 7 2008
OSCE Rep States his Remarks on Kosovo and Karabakh Misrepresented
07.03.08 17:00
Correction: Dov Lynch, the senior adviser to the OSCE's Secretary
General, said today he had been misquoted by Azerbaijani media after
making a speech in a personal capacity at the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly meeting in Baku.
In his speech yesterday (6 March) on developments in the South
Caucasus, Lynch had said that `wider developments may impact on
regional security'.
He referred to `interpretations of the so-called Kosovo `precedent'
as a case in point, despite declarations that the Kosovo case is sui
generis'. Lynch said in the speech that `certainly, developments in
the Western Balkans may mean that there is simply less time and
attention given to the South Caucasus by external actors'.
Statements reported by several Azerbaijani news agencies and
newspapers misrepresented the comments by Lynch, mistakenly saying he
had drawn a parallel between Kosovo and the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflicts.
`It is disappointing my remarks were misrepresented,' Lynch said.