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Jan 18 2005
ARMENIAN LAWMAKER ANGRY AT US DIPLOMAT'S REMARKS
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS: A member of the Armenian
parliament lashed today out at a senior outgoing US diplomat saying
her latest remarks jeopardize what has been done so far by the OSCE
Minsk group in an effort to help Azerbaijan and Armenia to come to a
mutually acceptable peace formula over Nagorno Karabagh.
Hamlet Harutunian, who is also chairman of Artsakh (Karabagh)
union, meant the remarks by Elizabeth Jones, a US State Department
Undersecretary that the US president George W. Bush is concerned that
Russian president Vladimir Putin's does not exert strong enough
pressure for resolution of post-Soviet conflicts in Transdniester,
South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabagh.
Speaking to a news conference the Armenian lawmaker went on to
argue that the remarks could harm the ongoing meetings of Armenian
and Azeri officials, especially with reported progress in the talks.
He said his union would ask the US State Department for explanations.
"It is in the interest of Russia that these four regions be
stable, clean of corruption and their corrupt separatist authorities
removed," Elizabeth Jones was quoted as saying.
Jan 18 2005
ARMENIAN LAWMAKER ANGRY AT US DIPLOMAT'S REMARKS
YEREVAN, JANUARY 18, ARMENPRESS: A member of the Armenian
parliament lashed today out at a senior outgoing US diplomat saying
her latest remarks jeopardize what has been done so far by the OSCE
Minsk group in an effort to help Azerbaijan and Armenia to come to a
mutually acceptable peace formula over Nagorno Karabagh.
Hamlet Harutunian, who is also chairman of Artsakh (Karabagh)
union, meant the remarks by Elizabeth Jones, a US State Department
Undersecretary that the US president George W. Bush is concerned that
Russian president Vladimir Putin's does not exert strong enough
pressure for resolution of post-Soviet conflicts in Transdniester,
South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Nagorno Karabagh.
Speaking to a news conference the Armenian lawmaker went on to
argue that the remarks could harm the ongoing meetings of Armenian
and Azeri officials, especially with reported progress in the talks.
He said his union would ask the US State Department for explanations.
"It is in the interest of Russia that these four regions be
stable, clean of corruption and their corrupt separatist authorities
removed," Elizabeth Jones was quoted as saying.