NKR FOREIGN MINISTER: EUROPE, TURKEY USING ARMENIAN PROBLEMS AS MEANS
FOR SETTLING MATTERS BETWEEN THEM
YEREVAN, May 26. /ARKA/. Europe and Turkey are using Armenian problems
as means for settling matters between them: in particular, Turks are
using Armenian-Turkish border closeness and Europeans the issue of
Armenian genocide admission, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic’s Foreign
Minister Arman Melikyan said in his interview with NKR Public
Television.
In his words, serious geopolitical changes are being seen in the world
while Turkey keeps Armenia-Turkey border locked to bargain over the
issue of its EU possible membership. “Turkey is blackmailing European
Union and to explain this blackmail lays the blame on Nagorno-Karabakh
problem”, Melikyan said. This trick is often being applied in
international politics as Armenian-Turkish border closeness has little
in common with Karabakh problem, the Minister said. In his opinion,
European diplomats acknowledge that and, in their turn, raise the
issue of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey as counterbalance.
Speaking about the steps needed when interests collide, Melikyan
stressed the necessity of securing own interests. “Nagorno-Karabakh
Republic is mainly interested in the country’s full-scale
participation in international processes and in turning it into a
full-fledged member of international community”, the Minister
said. M.V. -0–