Bryza refutes his words again

“The audio recording of my interview with “Ekho Moskvy” radio station shows that I did not say that “Karabakh and other territories” will be returned to Azerbaijan. What I did say was that, according to the Minsk Group's proposals, "territories" will be returned to Azerbaijan but that Nagorno Karabakh will acquire a new situation ("obstanovka"), the nature of which is the subject of negotiations”, U.S. negotiator stated today.

“I spoke about this mis-transcription with Ekho Moskvy's editor-in-chief, who immediately recalled that I did not utter the misquote above, but instead said that NK will acquire a new "obstanovka." The editor-in-chief just informed me that the transcript has now been clarified to reflect what I actually said. So, I urge all interested parties to look again at the Ekho Moskvy website. This incident points once again to the importance of journalists not jumping to rapid conclusions. If a journalist thinks a Minsk Group Co-Chair made a radical statement that departs from everything said until that point, the Co-Chair almost certainly did not make that statement”, Mathew Bryza stressed.

/Panorama.am/