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From: Giorgi Kandelaki (GKandelaki@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Jun 27 2002 - 12:45:47 EDT
FORMER ARMENIAN RULING PARTY SLAMS ALLEGED TERRITORIAL EXCHANGE. In a
statement released on 25 June, the Armenian Pan-National Movement
harshly criticized the Karabakh policy of current President Robert
Kocharian, Noyan Tapan reported. Specifically, the statement argued
that French reaction to Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliev's recent
claims that Armenia reneged on an agreed exchange of territory with
Azerbaijan proves that Aliev's claim is true (see "RFE/RL Newsline,"
17 and 20 June 2002). The statement brands Kocharian's imputed
willingness to bargain away a transit corridor through the southern
region of Meghri as "directed against Armenia's territorial integrity
and state security" and as "high treason." Also on 25 June, Zhirair
Sefilian, who commanded an Armenian battalion during the Karabakh war
and now heads an organization opposed to any concessions in the peace
process, similarly told journalists in Yerevan that simply for an
Armenian to utter the term "[transit] corridor" during peace talks is
tantamount to treason, Noyan Tapan reported. LF
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