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  • ANKARA: Turkey's Babacan: Azeri, Armenian FMs To Meet At UN

    TURKEY'S BABACAN: AZERI, ARMENIAN FMS TO MEET AT UN

    www.worldbulletin.net
    Sept 10 2008
    Turkey

    Turkish FM Babacan said "there were quite a few problematic issues"
    between Turkey and Armenia, such as the incidents of 1915, the Upper
    Karabakh problem.

    Turkey's foreign minister expressed hope for more dialogue with Armenia
    after Turkish and Armenian presidents watched a World Cup qualifying
    soccer match in Yerevan last Saturday.

    "In the new era for the Turkish-Armenian relations, there will be a
    new momentum in dialogue and we are pretty hopeful for the new era
    as we have seen a solution-oriented position on the part of Armenia,"
    Ali Babacan told a televised interview on Wednesday.

    Anatolian News Agency reported Babacan however said "there were
    quite a few problematic issues" between Turkey and Armenia, such as
    the incidents of 1915, the Upper Karabakh problem. The two countries
    also have no diplomatic relations.

    Babacan said he had been talking Turkish-Armenian relations with
    his counterpart, Eduard Nalbandian, as well as relations between
    Azerbaijan and Armenia.

    "We have an ongoing process between the foreign ministers of the
    two countries and we are in search of solutions to the problem,"
    Babacan said.

    Babacan said he might hold a joint meeting with Azeri and Armenian
    foreign ministers on the sidelines of UN General Assembly meetings
    in New York.

    "Armenia seems to have passed a threshold now, and the diplomatic
    traffic and our impression from the Armenian president and the foreign
    minister reveals that there is a strong will for solution in Armenia,"
    Babacan said.

    "They do understand our sensitivities and we do understand theirs. We
    have many reasons to be optimistic," he said.

    President Abdullah Gul became the first Turkish leader to visit Armenia
    on Saturday, a landmark encounter which officials said could help
    restore strained ties between the two countries and boost security
    in the Caucasus.

    Turkey, a transit state for Caspian and Central Asian oil and gas
    exports to Europe, was alarmed by the conflict and wants to play a
    bigger role in Caucasus security.

    Gul will hold talks with his Azeri counterpart in Baku on Wednesday
    to discuss a Turkish proposal to establish a security and cooperation
    platform for the Caucasus and to brief the president on his visit
    to Armenia.
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