Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Armenian president refuses to take part in NATO summit

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Armenian president refuses to take part in NATO summit

    Interfax, Russia
    Nov 19 2010


    Armenian president refuses to take part in NATO summit

    YEREVAN. Nov 19


    Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has declined to take part in the
    two-day NATO summit which began on Friday in Lisbon.

    "Armenia has repeatedly pointed out that it cannot accept unified
    formulas in settling conflicts," the Armenian presidential press
    service told Interfax.

    "The preservation in the draft resolution of the NATO summit in Lisbon
    of previous unified wordings for resolving the South Caucasus
    conflicts, which refer only to one of the principles proclaimed by the
    OSCE, could be a bad message and could create additional difficulties
    in the negotiating process on a peaceful settlement of the
    Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, especially against the background of
    unprecedented growth of Azerbaijan's military spending in the past
    years and its leadership's anti-Armenian rhetoric," the press service
    said.

    The Armenian president decided not to go to Lisbon, taking these
    concerns into account, it said.

    Armenia will be represented at the summit by the foreign minister and
    defense minister.

    NATO earlier forwarded an official invitation to Sargsyan to take part
    in the Lisbon summit.




    From: A. Papazian
Working...
X