Spezzatura Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 YEREVAN Armenia's Foreign Minister, Edward Nalbnadian, reiterated on Thursday his government's strong opposition to direct Turkish involvement in international efforts to settle the Nagorno Karabakh conflict, ArmRadio reported. “Turkey will not play the role of a mediator in the Karabakh peace process,” Nalbandian said in a joint press conference in Yerevan with Azerbaijan's Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmud Mamedguliev. “The Nagorno-Karabakh negotiations are underway between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Nagorno Karabakh within the framework of the OSCE Minsk Group and with the support of the [Minsk Group] co-chairs,” Nalbandian said Mamedguliev, in contrast, reaffirmed Baku's strong opposition to the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations before Karabakh peace. “Our position is the following: the restoration of links between Turkey and Armenia may only be conditional on the resolution of the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan,” he said. Nalbandian and Mamedguliev were speaking to journalists after the meeting of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization in Yerevan. Western and Turkish media had speculated that the Armenian Foreign Minister and his visiting Turkish counterpart, Ali Babacan, would use the meeting to announce an agreement on a gradual normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations. But that announcement never came. The recent rapprochement between Turkey-Armenia has hit a major bump in recent weeks, with Ankara echoing Baku's stern opposition to the establishment of diplomatic relations with Yerevan before a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Babacan refrained from making any public statements to that tune during his one-day trip, which ended with a meeting with President Serzh Sarkisian. He did, however, reaffirm the linkage between the Karabakh conflict and the establishment of diplomatic ties with Yerevan as he spoke to CNN-Turk television on his way to Yerevan. According to the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News, he said the Turkish-Armenian dialogue must run parallel with international efforts to settle the Karabakh conflict. ссылка Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Risha Posted April 17, 2009 Report Share Posted April 17, 2009 здорово! только не понятно, зачем нужно было механизм сей вообще запускать? Причем, как в прямом так и в переносном смысле Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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