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    168 Zham, Armenia
    May 12 2009


    They are in panic


    There is a panic in government circles due to yesterday's [11 May]
    statements by the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk group, Matthew Bryza,
    that territories should be returned to Azerbaijan step by step and the
    return of refugees should be ensured.

    The head of the information department of the Armenian Foreign
    Ministry, Tigran Balayan, responded to this statement first. "The
    issue of withdrawal [from Azerbaijani territories around Nagornyy
    Karabakh] was not discussed at all at the meeting between the Armenian
    and Azerbaijani presidents on 7 May of this year in Prague. The
    discussions mainly concerned the status of Nagornyy Karabakh. This is
    natural, as this is the central issue of the settlement of the Artsakh
    [Karabakh] issue," he said.

    A spokesperson for the [ruling] Republican Party of Armenia, Eduard
    Sharmazanov, said: "I am far from thinking that the US co-chair could
    have made such a statement, because only a person who does not want to
    promote a peaceful settlement of the conflict would have made such a
    groundless and poorly thought-out statement. Of course, if Bryza
    really made such a statement, it is clear proceeding from what he made
    such a statement, as it is obvious that Nagornyy Karabakh cannot be
    part of Azerbaijan in any status. The status of Nagornyy Karabakh is
    the key issue in the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, and the Armenian side
    has numerously said this: Nagornyy Karabakh was never part of
    independent Azerbaijan. The people of Nagornyy Karabakh
    self-determined in compliance with all norms of international law, and
    as a result of the military aggression which Azerbaijan started
    against it - it protected its inviolable right and established it
    security guarantees. At present the people of Nagornyy Karabakh
    creates its statehood successfully and establishes its own democratic
    entities."
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