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| 14:54:33 | 13-04-2005 | Politics |
DRASTIC CHANGES ARE POSSIBLE
Answering the questions of the journalists today Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanyan did not exclude the possibility of drastic changes in the
settlement of the Karabakh conflict. But Oskanyan considers the
announcements of the co-head that the packet of offers is ready a little
exaggerated. `The elements of the packet are being cleared out’, said
Oskanyan.
We also learnt that on April 15 in London there will not be a meeting
Mamedyarov-Oskanyan. `The OSCR Minsk group co-heads will meet me and
Mamedyarov separately, as there are issues they want to clear out, but there
will be no separate meeting Oskanyan-Mamedyarov’, said the RA Foreign
Minister. By the way, he is surprised by the recent attention to the meeting
of the foreign ministers, `This is not the first time I have met Mamedyarov;
there have been many meetings’.
Let us note that that Vardan Oskanyan does not share the optimism of the
OSCE Chairman-in Office Dimitrij Rupel. Let us remind that the matter is
about the announcement of Rupel after the meeting with Arkadi Ghoukasyan
that till summer a new window will open in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict.
Oskanyan did not want to comment on the question when there has been a
higher pressure from the international community, in 1997 or today. He
announced diplomatically that in 1997 he was the Deputy Foreign Minister and
he did not feel any pressure, neither does he now.
Speaking about Serge Sargsyan’s announcement that the security zone can be
returned in return for guarantees for security, Vardan Oskanyan announced
that the security zone carries out the role of security, and reminded about
his report in the Parliament where he had mentioned that `if the lands must
provide the security for Artsakh, they must be kept, and if they must be
returned for guarantees of security, they must be returned’. According to
the Foreign Minister, this was what the Defense Minister meant.