Serzh Sargsyan and Gorik Hakobyan didn't refute weapons deal with Iran: WikiLeaks

WikiLeaks has released a new US secret cable related to Armenia.

In the document published by The Guardian, US Ambassador to Armenia, Marie Yovanovich, speaks about separate meetings she held with Armenia's President Serzh Sargsyan and the head of Armenia's National Security Service (NSS), Gorik Hakobyan, on January 14, 2009.

Yovanovich describes those meetings as ''positive and constructive.''

The document also says that President "Sargsyan acknowledged the weapons purchase from Bulgaria, and that "neither he nor the NSS Chairman challenged our information that these weapons were then transferred to Iran/Iraq."

"Both men indicated that there would be an investigation into how the weapons went from Armenia to Iran/Iraq," reads the document.

"Hakobyan seemed to indicate that the blame most probably lay with the Bulgarians and perhaps unauthorized Armenians acting on their own," it added.

Further, it says that Ambassador Donald Mahley and his delegation presented Armenian officials with some documents proving that a weapons purchase had taken place between Armenia and Iran.

Ambassador Mahley, according to the document, spoke also of possible sanctions and said that the US wants to make sure no such thing will ever repeat.