ARMENIA ABLE TO BREAK TURKEY-AZERBAIJAN TANDEM

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.03.2006 00:37 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia should maximally keep the distance from
the history. Only in this case normalization of Armenian-Turkish
relations is possible, expert, political scientist Stepan Grigoryan
stated in an interview with a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter. In his words,
ARF Dashnaktsutyun is guilty in conclusion of the Moscow Treaty on
March 16, 1921, which signed it on behalf of Armenia. “It was exactly
when we lost everything and the Kars Treaty, signed October 13 of
the same year, merely fixed that loss,” he remarked. In his words,
no party will win anything in case of revision or denouncement of
the Moscow Treaty. “I am repeating, if we do not refer to history,
but start establishing relations with Turkey, it will notably weaken
Azerbaijan’s position in the region. In fact Armenia is able to break
the Turkey-Azerbaijan tandem for its interest,” Grigoryan emphasized.

According to the Moscow Treaty Turkey had agreed to yield sovereignty
over Batumi port and town, as well as territory making part of Batumi
District, to Georgia, “Nakhichevan region in the boundaries, indicated
in the attachment to the present Treaty forms an autonomous territory
under the patronage of Azerbaijan, stipulated that Azerbaijan will not
cede it to a third State. Russia pledges to makes steps regarding the
Transcaucasian Republics, so as these without fail recognize articles
of the present Treaty that refer to them in treaties to be concluded
between them and Turkey.”