Yerevan, April 25, Armenpress: Armenian foreign ministry has denied today media reports that president Kocharian is likely to visit the United States of America.
A spokesman for foreign ministry, Hamlet Gasparian, said it was wrong to conclude from an interview by Armenian deputy foreign minister Arman Kirakosian to Turkish daily Zaman that Kocharian was going to visit Washington after Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev. He said the conclusion was either a wrong translation of the interview or a distortion of Kirakosian’s words.
Gasparian said in a last week interview with Zaman Arman Kirakosian did not say Kocharian would visit Washington following Azeri president Aliyev’s visit, but singling out good relations between Washington and Yerevan did not exclude that Kocharian may visit the U.S.A. in any time in future.
Meantime Azeri president Ilham Aliyev has left today for a four-day official visit to Washington. In the USA he is scheduled to discuss various issues with president George Bush, vice-president Dick Cheney, defense secretary Rumsfeld and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. The outgoing US Ambassador in Baku Reno Harnish was quoted by local media last week as saying that the Karabakh problem will be high on Aliyev’s Washington agenda.
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