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    OPENING OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER WILL PROVIDE SOLUTION TO ARMENIA'S PROBLEMS, EX FOREIGN MINISTER

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    22.09.2009 20:21 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Protocols on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish
    ties do not create equal conditions for establishing friendly relations
    with Turkey, ex-Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said today in Yerevan,
    during a discussion devoted to Armenian-Turkish ties. "After getting
    familiarized with documents it becomes clear that Armenian side was
    forced to accept either the Protocols or the negotiations over them,
    based on the idea that Armenia's development and existence depends on
    border opening. In short, documents pave Turkey's way to what it has
    been striving for over 17 years," Oskanyan noted. Current situation,
    he said, is similar to late 1997 when Armenian authorities were
    using all possible methods to explain to people that the country
    could develop without the settlement of Karabakh problem.

    "Armenia's economy is currently experiencing 18% downfall. Diaspora
    has got detached from its motherland. Armenia's not a democratic
    state. Opening of Armenian-Turkish border will not provide solution
    to those problems," Vardan Oskanyan stressed, adding that Armenia's
    leadership seeks to resolve the country's internal problem beyond
    its borders but that cannot be achieved by signing Protocols.

    In the meantime, ex-Foreign Minister said he was not against
    Armenian-Turkish rapprochement. Border opening, according to him,
    is first of all necessary for Ankara considering that Armenian side
    does not have to make haste. "We might open border in a couple of
    years, having a much more acceptable and favorable document with
    Turkey. Besides, publicity of the process became our enemy. We might
    have conducted talks, agreed on certain points and only thereafter
    introduced a concrete document to society," Vardan Oskanyan stated.

    Besides, he added, that Ankara has several times pushed Armenia to
    renounce Protocols.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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