ARMENIA PRESIDENT IN SEOUL CRITICIZES AZERBAIJAN PRESIDENT’S ‘OBVIOUS MISINFORMATION’
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03.27.2012
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev is disseminating misinformation
regarding Armenia’s Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan said at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, taking place
in Seoul Mar. 26-27, referring to statements that the plant presents
a danger to the region.
“The Azerbaijani president’s obvious misinformation stated here
about the Armenian nuclear power plant doesn’t surprise me because
spreading lies about Armenia has long been the modus operandi in
Azerbaijan. By the way, not only everything having to do with Armenia
and Nagorno-Karabakh, but also the international community documents
adopted by us and you are presented in a distorted manner from the
highest platforms. They distort even the well-known resolutions on
Nagorno-Karabakh at the UN Security Council, forgetting that they have
begun military actions, that they have refused to terminate them,
and that they are the ones who everyday make bellicose statements
and refuse to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict on the basis
of international law,” the Armenian leader, as reported by the
president’s office.
After Chernobyl and Fukushima, Sargsyan continued, many approach the
future of nuclear energy with reservations. In some special cases, as
in the case of Armenia, he said, there are few alternatives – to ensure
stable development and improved standards of living for the population.
In Sargsyan’s opinion, it would be appropriate to consider energy,
including nuclear, safety as a whole with other, related issues.
According to him, the fight against turning energy resources into
malicious political capital is no less important. The consequences
of this are felt strongly particularly by those countries that have
fewer natural energy resources and are forced to find other ways to
energy independence.
“Two of Armenia’s four immediate neighbors, violating the norms of
international law, for two decades non stop have kept our country in
a blockade – among numerous other issues, not leaving alternatives
in the choice of paths to energy independence,” he said.