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    Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey
    June 12 2005

    Armenia wants US help with Turkey border dispute


    Armenia's foreign minister urged the United States to become more
    involved in settling his country's dispute with Turkey, especially in
    persuading Turkey to reopen its border and resume normal trade with
    its landlocked northern neighbor.

    The Turks closed the border in 1993 during Christian Armenia's
    six-year war with another Muslim neighbor, Azerbaijan.

    "The United States is active in this, but we would like to see them
    more engaged," Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said Friday after a
    meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

    "I believe the United States can be more assertive on the border
    matter. Not other matters, but on the border."

    Turkey closed the border after Armenian-backed troops from
    Nagorno-Karabakh, a mainly Christian Armenian enclave ruled by
    Azerbaijan when Armenia and Azerbaijan were Soviet republics, moved
    into other parts of Azerbaijan, seized towns and approached the
    Iranian and Turkish borders. A 1994 truce largely ended hostilities,
    but a final settlement has not been reached.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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