STROBE TALBOTT AGAIN MENTIONED IN CONNECTION WITH TERRORIST ACT IN ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net - YEREVAN, May 11. /Mediamax/. It is necessary to take into account all the details, for example, why the negotiations of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott with Prime-Minister Vazgen Sarkisian on October 27, 1999 lasted not 30 minutes as planned but 4 hours.

These words of Ashot Manucharian, the political secretary of the Union of Socialist Forces of Armenia, one of the leaders of the National Rescue Front are quoted by the "Haykakan Zhamanak" Yerevan paper today.

"Why after the meeting with Vazgen Sarkisian Talbott's car rushed to the airport at a speed of 140km/hours, instead of the allowed 60?," Manucharian asks. He considers not serious the version that the American diplomat was being late for Moscow where he had a meeting with Russian FM Igor Ivanov. "It was very important that at the moment when the terrorist act was being accomplished, Talbott's plane was already in the air and not on the Armenian land," Manucharian said.

In autumn 2000 Ashot Manucharian said that the reason for the terrorist act was the disagreement of the killed PM Vazgen Sarkisian and Speaker Karen Demirchian with the plan of Karabakh settlement through territory swap, "which was being imposed by the West". --0--