Friday, January 21, 2005

US POLICY IN CAUCASUS SMELLS OF AZERI OIL

YEREVAN, JANUARY 20. ARMINFO. The US official policy in the Caucasus smells of Azeri oil, says academic Stepan Stepanyan commenting on US assistant state secretary Elizabeth Jones's statement on the necessity of liquidation of separatist regimes in Nagorny Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transdniestria.

He says that this was the US's curtsey to its allies especially in the light of the Feb 24 Bratislava meeting of Putin and Bush who are planning to discuss the Karabakh issue. "The US has forgotten that 200 years ago it was fighting for self-determination itself. And now the Armenian people turns out to have no right for self-determination." "This also means bad mark for Armenia's foreign policy and the work of the Armenian embassies abroad," says Stepanyan.

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