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Edward Nalbandian: Armenia will be pleased if Turkish foreign minister
comes to Yerevan to participate in BSEC summit
2009-03-11 21:05:00
ArmInfo. Armenia will be pleased if the Turkish foreign minister comes
to Yerevan to participate in the BSEC summit, Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian said in Paris, Wednesday.
As the Public Television of Armenia reported, the Armenian foreign
minister added that an invitation was also sent to the foreign minister
of Azerbaijan, which often displayed lack of hospitality with respect
to Armenia. "Azerbaijan didn't invite the Armenian delegation to
participate in the TRACECA summit in Baku or NATO military exercises,
as a result of which the latters were cancelled. Such approach of
Azerbaijan is inadmissible",- Nalbandian said.
Concerning the prospects for normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations, Nalbandyan expressed hope that the relations would be
improved and the border would be opened without preconditions. He
disproved the rumors about the possibility of Turkey's mediation in the
Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. He said that they in Azerbaijan and
Turkey had repeatedly said that Azerbaijan and Turkey were independent
states but their peoples were two branches of one nation. In this
light, Nalbandyan wonders how one branch can be a mediator in the
relations of the other branch with another state.
Nalbandyan said that the possible recognition of the Armenian Genocide
by the United States should not have influence on the Armenian-Turkish
rapprochement: if both parties actually have political will to
normalize their relations nothing will prevent them from doing it.
comes to Yerevan to participate in BSEC summit
2009-03-11 21:05:00
ArmInfo. Armenia will be pleased if the Turkish foreign minister comes
to Yerevan to participate in the BSEC summit, Armenian Foreign Minister
Edward Nalbandian said in Paris, Wednesday.
As the Public Television of Armenia reported, the Armenian foreign
minister added that an invitation was also sent to the foreign minister
of Azerbaijan, which often displayed lack of hospitality with respect
to Armenia. "Azerbaijan didn't invite the Armenian delegation to
participate in the TRACECA summit in Baku or NATO military exercises,
as a result of which the latters were cancelled. Such approach of
Azerbaijan is inadmissible",- Nalbandian said.
Concerning the prospects for normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations, Nalbandyan expressed hope that the relations would be
improved and the border would be opened without preconditions. He
disproved the rumors about the possibility of Turkey's mediation in the
Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. He said that they in Azerbaijan and
Turkey had repeatedly said that Azerbaijan and Turkey were independent
states but their peoples were two branches of one nation. In this
light, Nalbandyan wonders how one branch can be a mediator in the
relations of the other branch with another state.
Nalbandyan said that the possible recognition of the Armenian Genocide
by the United States should not have influence on the Armenian-Turkish
rapprochement: if both parties actually have political will to
normalize their relations nothing will prevent them from doing it.