The President of Armenia made his statement on Crimea with due regard for the Karabakh conflict, German Ambassador to Armenia Reiner Morell told journalists. According to Morell, Armenia's leadership recognized only the peoples' right to self-determination, not the annexation of Crimea of Russia.
Morell pointed out that Serzh Sargsyan made his statement in a phone conversation and then was fixed on the paper, but anyway, it was not an official stance.
The Ambassador stressed the need to analyze whether Armenia really agrees with the occupation of Crimea or it just wants to state the peoples' right to self-determination. Even the second variant was not easily perceived, because everyone saw that the developments in Crimea were not controlled, he said.
To recall, in the March 19 telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said that the referendum in Crimea was one more example of exercise of the peoples' right to self-determination through a free expression of will.