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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE NOT SURE WHETHER IT MAKES SENSE ORGANIZING MEETING ON KARABAKH IN THE CONTEST OF UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY NOW AFTER INCIDENT WITH SAFAROV
arminfo
Monday, September 10, 13:28
>From the State Dept. Briefing on Clinton at APEC Summit: "As you
know, we had this incident that we were quite unhappy about where
an Azerbaijani who had been incarcerated in Hungary was recently
released. And there again, in the context of the UN General Assembly,
we generally try, as Minsk Group partners, to do some kind of
Nagorno-Karabakh event. So the question becomes whether that makes
sense now, whether we can be supportive in calming tensions between
Armenia and Azerbaijan," U.S. Department Of State Office of the
Spokesperson said in response to media questions.
Asked (on Nagorno-Karabakh), there was the suggestion that the Minsk
Group might somehow do what? The spokesperson said: "Well, again,
in - traditionally UNGA has been a time - the UN General Assembly
has been a time when Minsk Group countries have been able to - have
pulled together either at the Assistant Secretary level or higher
to try to encourage progress, et cetera. The environment is more
difficult this year in light of this past incident. So they had a
general conversation about trying to stay in touch and see whether we
could cool things down and try to improve the environment heading into
UNGA since everybody is usually there." In response to the question
if that would be sort of a normal Minsk inaudible), he said: "Yeah,
yeah, yeah. There's not an expectation of a breakthrough."
To recall, the Ramil Safarov was sentenced to life in prison by the
Hungarian court in 2004. Later on August 31 2012 he was extradited.
Soon afterwards, he was promoted to a higher rank and presented
with a free apartment. Armenia has suspended diplomatic relations
with Hungary.
arminfo
Monday, September 10, 13:28
>From the State Dept. Briefing on Clinton at APEC Summit: "As you
know, we had this incident that we were quite unhappy about where
an Azerbaijani who had been incarcerated in Hungary was recently
released. And there again, in the context of the UN General Assembly,
we generally try, as Minsk Group partners, to do some kind of
Nagorno-Karabakh event. So the question becomes whether that makes
sense now, whether we can be supportive in calming tensions between
Armenia and Azerbaijan," U.S. Department Of State Office of the
Spokesperson said in response to media questions.
Asked (on Nagorno-Karabakh), there was the suggestion that the Minsk
Group might somehow do what? The spokesperson said: "Well, again,
in - traditionally UNGA has been a time - the UN General Assembly
has been a time when Minsk Group countries have been able to - have
pulled together either at the Assistant Secretary level or higher
to try to encourage progress, et cetera. The environment is more
difficult this year in light of this past incident. So they had a
general conversation about trying to stay in touch and see whether we
could cool things down and try to improve the environment heading into
UNGA since everybody is usually there." In response to the question
if that would be sort of a normal Minsk inaudible), he said: "Yeah,
yeah, yeah. There's not an expectation of a breakthrough."
To recall, the Ramil Safarov was sentenced to life in prison by the
Hungarian court in 2004. Later on August 31 2012 he was extradited.
Soon afterwards, he was promoted to a higher rank and presented
with a free apartment. Armenia has suspended diplomatic relations
with Hungary.