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    NALBANDIAN SAID THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH THAW AND THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH NEGOTIATIONS WERE 'TWO SEPARATE PROCESSES.'

    ArmInfo
    2009-11-02 16:40:00

    ArmInfo. Armenia's foreign minister has rejected Turkish calls for
    concessions in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh in exchange for the
    historic rapprochement between Yerevan and Ankara. The minister made
    this statement in an interview with Reuters.

    Speaking to Reuters late on Friday, Edward Nalbandian said negotiations
    between Turkey and Armenia were over and both sides were obliged to
    move quickly to establish diplomatic relations and open their border
    under accords signed this month.

    Turkish leaders say they want to see progress in negotiations between
    Armenia and Turkish ally Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh before
    parliament in Ankara ratifies the accords, a link Armenia rejects.

    "Why did we sign two protocols if we are not going to ratify and
    implement them?" Nalbandian, 53, said in an interview in the Armenian
    capital, Yerevan.

    "I think the whole international community is waiting for quick
    ratification and implementation and respect for the agreements which
    are in the protocols," he said, speaking in English.

    "If one of the sides will delay and create some obstacles in the way
    of ratification and implementation, I think it could bear all the
    responsibility for the negative consequences."

    Nalbandian said the Armenian-Turkish thaw and the Nagorno-Karabakh
    negotiations were "two separate processes." There is a "positive
    dynamic", he said. "But to say that tomorrow or in one month's time
    or in a very short period of time we will come to the agreement,
    I don't think this is very serious."
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