“THE RUSSIANS TO PUT PRESSURE UPON YEREVAN FOR IMPROVEMENT OF
RELATIONS WITH TURKEY,” “HYURIETT” WRITES

ISTANBUL, December 13 (Noyan Tapan). “The Russians reported that they
would put more essential pressure upon Yerevan for the settlement of
Yerevan’s problems with Turkey,” the Turkish “Hyuriett” newspaper
wrote in its December 7 issue.

According to the newspaper, which was re-published by the “Marmara”
newspaper, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Abdullah Gul said
during the official dinner given in honor of Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov that Turkey wants to undertake some
steps in the direction of the improvement of its relations with
Armenia but waits for Armenia to take the first step. “We will not be
able to do anything until Armenia undertakes steps, but Armenia
suffers a lot from the current state of affairs,” said Gul. S. Lavrov
said that it is quite a positive position, and his country will do its
best to explain Armenia what steps it should undertake for the
improvement of the relations with Turkey.