Armenian minister upbeat about improving ties with Turkey

Mediamax news agency
22 Sep 04

YEREVAN

“We never lose hope for a normalization of relations with Turkey,”
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said in Yerevan today.

Vardan Oskanyan said he would meet his Turkish counterpart Abdullah
Gul during the UN General Assembly session in New York.

“The expectations from the meeting are as usual – to achieve positive
changes in relations with Turkey,” Oskanyan said. He acknowledged that
Yerevan is far less optimistic as to the prospects for
Armenian-Turkish relations than it was at the start of his meetings
with Abdullah Gul.

“Nonetheless, we are not losing hope,” Vardan Oskanyan said.