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Armenian Foreign Minister insists on document of Karabakh negotiations table

24 July 2006 [22:11] - TODAY.AZ
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan in news conference today said the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza is not expected to offer a new proposal in his upcoming visit to the region.

As APA reports, the Armenian minister expressed hope that Bryza will achieve making the Azerbaijani side renegotiate on the document on the table of negotiations. Oskanyan said Armenia has obviously expressed its stance regarding this document while Azerbaijan has problems in this context.

"If Baku agrees to renegotiate on these principles, a new stage of the negotiating process would start," Oskanyan said.

Armenian Minister also said such documents do not appear within a week but the result of long-term negotiations, "If Azerbaijan appears to reject the proposal again, the situation will seriously deteriorate."

He recalled conducting of parliamentary elections in Armenia in 2007 forecasting that the negotiation process would be difficult.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Tahir Taghizadeh commented on Oskanyan's statement on a document on the negotiations table. He told the APA that Russian co-chair of the Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov refuted the reports on existing of any document on the table of talks.

"I have no idea what document Vardan Oskanyan is talking about. I think Oskanyan has no idea about this either," Taghizadeh said.

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