“Leakage with a Little Dosage for Media”: Alexander Arzumanyan

It was just “a little dosage of outflow for the media,” former Foreign Minister of Armenia and currently a representative of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) Alexander Arzumanyan said at a press conference today, referring to a May 17 publication by the Turkish daily Hurriyet.

Earlier Hurriyet had written that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will during his visit to Baku try and convince the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev to satisfy with only two regions – Kelbajar and Fizuli – that Armenia will supposedly return to Azerbaijan.

“I think that was just an outflow with dosage given to the media which made it clear Erdogan and [Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev have reached some agreements, and Erdogan, by visiting Baku, not only speaks about the return of those two regions, but it is rather part of a new road map,” said Arzumanyan, adding that time will prove the credibility of that publication.

He also said that the return of the territories is mentioned in all parts of the renewed Madrid Principles, adding that any one-sided concession will be unacceptable.