Robert Kocharyan`s office Head to Radio Liberty: So Kocharyan gave  Meghri, and Heydar Aliyev refused?

ArmInfo.Bagrat Mikoyan, the Head of  Robert Kocharyan's office commented on the report by the  Armenian service of Radio Liberty regarding declassified US State Department documents on the Meghri option for resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which was under discussion in the late 1990s.

Mikoyan stated that he had read the publication and described it as  propaganda. He pointed out that the report only includes fragments of  correspondence involving Azerbaijani, Turkish and American diplomats,  which are filled with subjective assumptions and interpretations, in  order to support the "Meghri transfer" version.

In this vein, he mentioned that in 1999, Heydar Aliyev did indeed  propose to exchange Meghri for Artsakh.  However, by 2001, the  co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group had presented an official document  suggesting the unification of Artsakh with Armenia. Additinally,  Mikoyan emphasized that this document did not include a single line  about the transfer of Meghri to Azerbaijan; instead, Azerbaijan was  granted a road to Nakhichevan.

"This grand transformation took place thanks to daily diplomatic  efforts, without show and populism.  President Kocharyan's book  clearly and accessibly details this process. According to a report by  "Radio Liberty," it seems  President Kocharyan gave Meghri, and an  experienced and skillful politician, such as Heydar Aliyev, refused  to take it. This is, at the very least, funny, if not disrespectful  and mocking of of his own listeners' intellectual abilities," Mikoyan  noted.  At the end of the conversation, the head of the office called  for the publication of all official proposals made by the OSCE Minsk  Group, as well as all responses from the Armenian authorities  up to  the present time.