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11 May 2001 - 18:01 AMT

FOREIGN MINISTER OF ARMENIA CALLED ON HIS OPPONENTS TO REFRAIN FROM “LESSONS OF PATRIOTISM”

YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia Vardan Oskanian commented today on the numerous negative statements about him, which appeared after Armenian Foreign Minister named on Wednesday the territories, which are under the control of the NKR Defense Army, “occupied”.
In the telephone interview to the Public Television of Armenia, Oskanian, who is Strasbourg, stated that he meant the “taken territories”. Usually, I always use the terms “taken” or “territories under our control”, Armenian minister stressed. “Due to the kind of my work, I, unlike the “patriotically” oriented Armenian parliamentarians, cannot yield to the temptation and name these territories “liberated”, Vardan Oskanian said.
Foreign Minister called on his opponents to refrain from teaching him “patriotic lessons”. “I have been closely dealing with this problem for 8 years and no one has the right to teach me such “lessons”, Vardan Oskanian said. –0–