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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 12:50:14 EDT
FRANCE 'SURPRISED' BY AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT'S KARABAKH CLAIMS. French
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Catherine Waliski told RFE/RL's Armenian
Service on 19 June that her government is "somewhat surprised" by
President Heidar Aliev's disclosures of what he claims was an
agreement reached between himself and Kocharian in talks in Paris
last year mediated by French President Jacques Chirac (see "RFE/RL
Newsline," 17 June 2002). She said that details of the negotiations
in Paris in March and in Florida, under the aegis of the OSCE Minsk
Group, in April "cannot be disclosed," and that the two presidents
themselves had agreed that details "should be kept confidential as
long as there is no final agreement between the two parties." She
added that the two presidents asked the international mediators not
to divulge details of the peace talks. She did not confirm or deny
whether Aliev's claims about the agreement reached between himself
and Kocharian are accurate. This is not the first time that Aliev has
violated the confidentiality of the OSCE-mediated Karabakh peace
talks. While visiting the United States in July 1997, he disclosed to
the press details of a peace proposal made by the OSCE Minsk Group
two months earlier (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 1 August 1997). LF
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