Mr Sammut, do you mean political forces in both Armenia and Azerbaijan when you are speaking about slogans?
DS : Political forces in both Armenia and Azerbaijan use slogans, quite a lot of slogans. What we have in this situation, most of the time but not always, is what I call megaphone diplomacy. So we dont really have diplomacy of negotiations or diplomacy of trying to actually work out solutions to the problem. We have people shouting slogans from across the frontier from one country to another. This is not helpful because by the time the message reaches the other side, it gets distorted and it gets misunderstood. I have seen this happen so many times, on so many issues and I have appealed to my friends here and to my friends in Baku to calm down and dont use this method because it is not useful for you, for your countries or for anybody. Q. If I am not mistaken you were recently in Baku, is that so? DS : Yes that is right. Q. Mr Sammut, you said that there needs to be positive progress in the dialogue between the two parties. However the recent murder of the Armenian officer in Hungary a
