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ARMENIA FOR NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS WITH TURKEY WITHOUT ANY PRECONDITIONS
Qatar News Agency
April 27, 2013 Saturday 3:26 PM EST
Moscow, April 27 (QNA) - Armenia seeks the normalization of relations
with Turkey without any preconditions, its Foreign Minister Edvard
Nalbandian said in Moscow, where he is on an official visit.
"As far as relations with Turkey are concerned, our position is based
on the well-known principle - normalization without preconditions,"
Nalbandian said in a statement carried by Russian Itar-Tass news
agency on Saturday.
"It was on that basis that the process of negotiations with Turkey
was launched at our initiative in 2008. With this
understanding we began that process and achieved agreements. From
the very start of the process and up to this day this approach of
ours has enjoyed support of the entire world community," he said.
"Regrettably, Turkey later departed from the agreements," the Armenian
foreign minister said. "Ankara has not only refused to ratify the
protocols, but also returned to the language of preconditions it had
been using before."
"The international community and many countries, including Turkey's
allies, have been saying that the ball is in the Turkish court, that
Armenia has walked its part of the way and that now Turkey must do
what it has promised to the international community," Nalbandian said.
He recalled that "these days people in Moscow and many other cities
around the world are remembering the victims
of the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire." (QNA)
MK,MD
Qatar News Agency
April 27, 2013 Saturday 3:26 PM EST
Moscow, April 27 (QNA) - Armenia seeks the normalization of relations
with Turkey without any preconditions, its Foreign Minister Edvard
Nalbandian said in Moscow, where he is on an official visit.
"As far as relations with Turkey are concerned, our position is based
on the well-known principle - normalization without preconditions,"
Nalbandian said in a statement carried by Russian Itar-Tass news
agency on Saturday.
"It was on that basis that the process of negotiations with Turkey
was launched at our initiative in 2008. With this
understanding we began that process and achieved agreements. From
the very start of the process and up to this day this approach of
ours has enjoyed support of the entire world community," he said.
"Regrettably, Turkey later departed from the agreements," the Armenian
foreign minister said. "Ankara has not only refused to ratify the
protocols, but also returned to the language of preconditions it had
been using before."
"The international community and many countries, including Turkey's
allies, have been saying that the ball is in the Turkish court, that
Armenia has walked its part of the way and that now Turkey must do
what it has promised to the international community," Nalbandian said.
He recalled that "these days people in Moscow and many other cities
around the world are remembering the victims
of the 1915 genocide in the Ottoman Empire." (QNA)
MK,MD