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    TURKEY'S ERDOGAN URGES 'PROGRESS' ON KARABAKH

    http://www.asbarez.com/2009/09/22/turkey s-erdogan-urges-progress-on-karabakh/
    Sep 22, 2009

    ANKARA (Reuters)-Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday
    sought again to link the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Ankara's
    negotiations with Armenia to normalize relations, urging international
    mediators to speed up efforts to quickly resolve the conflict.

    Talks on the future of Nagorno-Karabakh have been dragging on for
    more than a decade under the auspices of the Minsk Group linking
    Russia, France and the United States. Turkey has said it hopes to
    open its border with Armenia by the end of the year under a protocol
    to establish diplomatic ties, but it maintains that further progress
    has been hampered in the past by the frozen Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

    "Erdogan said the Minsk group that is co-presided by the U.S. has an
    important role in contributing to the improvement of the relations
    with Armenia and asked the group to increase their efforts," Anatolian
    news agency quoted him as saying.

    Erdogan made his comments in New York, where he traveled to attend the
    U.N. General Assembly. Turkish newspapers have reported that Turkey's
    Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will meet his Armenian counterpart
    on the sidelines of the gathering.

    Anticipation over an Ankara-Yerevan thaw has been growing ahead of
    a planned visit by Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian to Turkey on
    October 14, when he is due to attend the return leg of a World Cup
    qualifying football match between the two countries.
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