The Foreign Ministry has described as unfounded the Armenian president’s remarks that Armenians would be driven out of Karabakh after a settlement.
’Mr Sargsyan seems not to know that Azerbaijan will never drive out its population because of their ethnicity,’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Elkhan Polukhov said today.
About 30,000 Armenians live in Azerbaijan and ’enjoy all the rights extended to citizens of the country and no policy on their ethnicity is conducted against them’, Polukhov said.
’Therefore, it is unfounded to say that immediately after the resolution of the conflict Azerbaijan, which has 30,000 Armenian citizens in its nonoccupied lands, will drive out the Armenian citizens of Nagorno-Karabakh. If this is how Azerbaijan lives today, why would it conduct a different policy towards its citizens in Nagorno-Karabakh tomorrow?’ Polukhov asked.
He was commenting on an interview given by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan to German weekly Der Spiegel.
The Armenian president’s spokesman, Armen Arzumanyan, told Tert.Am today that Der Spiegel had promised to correct what he described as inaccuracies in the weekly’s published version of Serzh Sargsyan’s interview.
As of 13.00 GMT on Monday the interview could not be found in German or Russian on Der Spiegel’s website.
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