YEREVAN. - A statement on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict ascribed to Romanian President Traian Basescu conflicts with the position of the international community, Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyn said.

“I do not want to believe that head of an EU member-state may make such a biased and non-constructive statement,” Kocharyan said, the press service of Armenian Foreign Office informed Armenian News-NEWS.am.

According to Kocharyan, if he did made such a statement, it contradicts with the approach of the international community, the position of the OSCE, EU, with the statement adopted at ministerial meetings in Helsinki, Athens, Almaty, Astana Summit, as well as the joint statement of Presidents Medvedev, Obama and Sarkozy in Aquila and Muskoka, which clearly say that the status of Nagorno-Karabakh should be determined on the basis of legally binding free expression of will.

“Such statements aimed at attracting Baku’s sympathy, can arouse nothing but bewliderment,” Kocharyan stressed.