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EurasiaNet , NY
June 25 2010
Armenia: International community is on our side, in secret
June 25, 2010 - 12:13pm, by Joshua Kucera
Is the "international community" blaming Azerbaijan for the recent
violence in Karabakh that killed several soldiers on each side? So
claims Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
Really? Well, not publicly, of course; the official statements are
impartial. But Nalbandian says that that's what they are saying to the
Armenians, according to RFE/RL:
`In contacts with us, those making such statements, especially after
the latest incident, are telling us, `You can clearly see to whom our
statements are addressed,'' he told a joint news conference with
Austria's visiting Foreign Minister Michael Spindeleger.
`Because clearly it's not Armenia that makes bellicose statements,
calls for war,' said Nalbandian. `It's not Armenia that organized that
provocation on the border and inside the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's
territory. It's not Armenia that rejected a proposal to reinforce the
ceasefire regime which was made by the OSCE Minsk Group.'
Unfortunately I don't see any transcript of the press conference, and
none of the press accounts report on whether Spindelegger commented on
this assertion. But it would seem that either Nalbandian is lying, or
talking about off-the-record conversations in public. Either one is
surely annoying the international community which Nalbandian claims is
on his side.
From: A. Papazian
June 25 2010
Armenia: International community is on our side, in secret
June 25, 2010 - 12:13pm, by Joshua Kucera
Is the "international community" blaming Azerbaijan for the recent
violence in Karabakh that killed several soldiers on each side? So
claims Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
Really? Well, not publicly, of course; the official statements are
impartial. But Nalbandian says that that's what they are saying to the
Armenians, according to RFE/RL:
`In contacts with us, those making such statements, especially after
the latest incident, are telling us, `You can clearly see to whom our
statements are addressed,'' he told a joint news conference with
Austria's visiting Foreign Minister Michael Spindeleger.
`Because clearly it's not Armenia that makes bellicose statements,
calls for war,' said Nalbandian. `It's not Armenia that organized that
provocation on the border and inside the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic's
territory. It's not Armenia that rejected a proposal to reinforce the
ceasefire regime which was made by the OSCE Minsk Group.'
Unfortunately I don't see any transcript of the press conference, and
none of the press accounts report on whether Spindelegger commented on
this assertion. But it would seem that either Nalbandian is lying, or
talking about off-the-record conversations in public. Either one is
surely annoying the international community which Nalbandian claims is
on his side.
From: A. Papazian