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STEPANAKERT SEES 'MISUNDERSTANDING' BEHIND FM'S INTERVIEW BLUNDER
Karabakh | 21.06.13 | 09:09
A presidential spokesman in Karabakh has called it a case of
misunderstanding as a result of which Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan,
in an interview with France 24 television channel, 'acknowledged'
the prospect of Karabakh's becoming part of Azerbaijan in the future.
"There was a misunderstanding in the interview. The man who
conducted the interview and the foreign minister of Karabakh seemed
to misunderstand each other. Karen Mirzoyan was still answering the
previous question when that question was asked," David Babayan told
Aysor.am.
"As a citizen, an official, let alone the foreign minister of Artsakh,
he could not have expressed such a position," said Babayan, again
articulating Stepanakert's position that "it is ruled out that Artsakh
will be again part of Azerbaijan".
In the interview aired last week, in response to the remark question:
"You wound not ever see the prospect of... perhaps being a part
of Azerbaijan ever again?", Mirzoyan replies (in English): "Look,
there are some prospects, there are some hopes, but I am not going
to make propaganda, but I believe that first of all Azerbaijan has
to change its stance, its position..." Before that he was replying
to the question regarding prospects of peace in Karabakh.
Meanwhile, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan had
to comment on the information spread by some media according to which
during his visit to Ukraine Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
said in an interview with Izvestia Ukraine newspaper that "there is
no life in Nagorno-Karabakh".
In reply to the inquiry from Novosti-Armenia News Agency, the Armenian
official said that based on the information received from the Belarus
Foreign Ministry, Lukashenko did not make such a statement. Moreover,
he said, Lukashenko did not give an interview to Izvestia Ukraine
during his official visit to Ukraine.
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/47087/karabakh_karen_mirzoyan_interview_france24_shavars h_kocharyan
Karabakh | 21.06.13 | 09:09
A presidential spokesman in Karabakh has called it a case of
misunderstanding as a result of which Foreign Minister Karen Mirzoyan,
in an interview with France 24 television channel, 'acknowledged'
the prospect of Karabakh's becoming part of Azerbaijan in the future.
"There was a misunderstanding in the interview. The man who
conducted the interview and the foreign minister of Karabakh seemed
to misunderstand each other. Karen Mirzoyan was still answering the
previous question when that question was asked," David Babayan told
Aysor.am.
"As a citizen, an official, let alone the foreign minister of Artsakh,
he could not have expressed such a position," said Babayan, again
articulating Stepanakert's position that "it is ruled out that Artsakh
will be again part of Azerbaijan".
In the interview aired last week, in response to the remark question:
"You wound not ever see the prospect of... perhaps being a part
of Azerbaijan ever again?", Mirzoyan replies (in English): "Look,
there are some prospects, there are some hopes, but I am not going
to make propaganda, but I believe that first of all Azerbaijan has
to change its stance, its position..." Before that he was replying
to the question regarding prospects of peace in Karabakh.
Meanwhile, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan had
to comment on the information spread by some media according to which
during his visit to Ukraine Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko
said in an interview with Izvestia Ukraine newspaper that "there is
no life in Nagorno-Karabakh".
In reply to the inquiry from Novosti-Armenia News Agency, the Armenian
official said that based on the information received from the Belarus
Foreign Ministry, Lukashenko did not make such a statement. Moreover,
he said, Lukashenko did not give an interview to Izvestia Ukraine
during his official visit to Ukraine.
http://armenianow.com/karabakh/47087/karabakh_karen_mirzoyan_interview_france24_shavars h_kocharyan