Yerevan authorities have informed the German ambassador in his telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart at the beginning of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has recognized the right of people to self-determination, but not recognized directly the annexation of Crimea by Russia.
Yesterday, Ambassador Reiner Morell himself confirmed.
Sargsyan had a telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin on March 19, the day after the referendum challenge to the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
The press service of Sargsyan said that during the conversation, the two leaders also “talk about the crisis in Ukraine in general and ways out of this situation. ”
Two days later, Ukraine formally recalled its ambassador based in Yerevan, warning of serious damage to bilateral relations and demanding an official explanation regarding the acceptance of the disputed referendum in Crimea by the Armenian government. Earlier in the day, U.S. Ambassador John Heffern Armenia expressed his disappointment at Washington this decision of the Armenian government to recognize the actual annexation by Russia in the Crimea, strongly condemned by the West.
Ambassador Morell said that, following a conversation with the Armenian government, the German embassy understood that “President Sargsyan just wanted to emphasize the right to self-determination of peoples, because of the situation in Nagorno- Karabakh. But that does not mean that the country recognizes the annexation of the Crimea. ”
Asked whether it was fair to its interpretation or if the Armenian government had clearly not recognized this annexation, the German ambassador said: “This is information that we arrived here. ”
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