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    Trend, Azerbaijan
    Jan 7 2010


    Economically suffering Armenia better to compromise: expert
    07.01.2010 14:17
    Azerbaijan, Baku, Jan. 6 / Trend News E.Tariverdiyeva /

    It is very much in the interest of landlocked and economically
    suffering Armenia to proceed with the treaties, which will open up the
    Turkey-Armenia border, U.S. expert on Turkey Michael Gunter believes.

    "Both sides must make compromise to implement that they have already
    agreed," American expert and political science professor at the
    Tennessee Technological University Gunter told Trend News. "However,
    Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh are still a major obstacle to the
    parties."

    Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers Ahmet Davutoglu and Edward
    Nalbandian signed the Ankara-Yerevan protocols in Zurich Oct. 10.
    Diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey have been broken due
    to Armenia's claims of an alleged genocide, and its occupation of
    Azerbaijani lands. The border between them has been broken since 1993.

    The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988
    when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. Armenian
    armed forces have occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan since 1992,
    including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and 7 surrounding districts.
    Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a ceasefire agreement in 1994. The
    co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group - Russia, France, and the U.S. - are
    currently holding the peace negotiations.

    Armenia has not yet implemented the U.N. General Assembly's
    resolutions on the liberation of the Nagorno-Karabakh region and the
    occupied territories.

    According to the expert, in the case of normalization of relations
    with Armenia, Turkey will also benefit from the absence of problems
    with neighbors.

    Recently, "soccer diplomacy" between the two ancient rivals has given
    further hope for much more cooperation on further issues, the expert
    believes.

    "If both countries would ratify the treaties on the development of
    relations and establishment of diplomatic relations signed in Zurich
    in October 2009 it would facilitate further Turkish-Armenian
    rapprochement," Gunter added.
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