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    WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT MUCH, AS THE PRESENT PROBLEMS HAVE A VERY LONG STORY
    By H. Chaqrian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    01/10/2008

    Armenia-Turkey

    Says Turkish Foreign Minister

    On September 26 in New York took place the trilateral meeting of
    Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Seemingly, the
    most important achievement of that meeting was the decision was to
    continue dialog between the aforementioned states in that format. The
    meeting caused much consideration in international press, and the
    response was positive for the most part.

    Before referring to the comments, it should be mentioned that the
    trilateral meeting was preceded by another meeting of Edward Nalbandian
    and Ali Babacan, which lasted for about 40 minutes.

    In a joint press conference after the meeting of the three Foreign
    Ministers Ali Babacan said that Caucasus has great capacities. "if
    peace and stability in Caucasus are achieved, great things can be
    done. It is also important in sense of geopolitical location of
    the region. Today we discussed the opportunity of establishing the
    Caucasian Stability and Partnership Platform, as well as issues
    peculiar to the region."

    The Armenian Foreign Minister thanked his Turkish colleague for
    arranging the meeting and appreciated Turkey's initiative about the
    Platform. He said that the Armenian and Turkish discussed opportunities
    of full normalization of the relationships between the two countries
    and exchanged opinions.

    Mamedyarov said that taking into consideration all the risks and
    problems in Caucasus, the meeting of the Armenian Turkish and
    Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers was very important.

    On the same day Ali Babacan gave a live interview to CNN-Turk. He
    said that the dialogue between Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan shall
    continue in the trilateral format and said that diplomatic contacts
    between Armenia and Turkey, which started almost a year ago, shall
    develop. Referring to the issues of opening the Armenian-Turkish
    border and of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Foreign Minister said,
    "We should not expect much, as the present problems have a very long
    story, some of them were originated in the times of World War 1. We
    will proceed at a slow pace. We have a plenty of problems to consider".

    We would like to add that Turkey removed any restrictions from its
    airspace for flights to and from Yerevan. The Embassies of Turkey
    received permission to attend receptions organized by the Armenian
    Embassies around the world.
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