TURKEY HOPES 2007 WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY OF NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFLICT AS YEAR OF BREAKTHROUGH
Author: A.Ismaylova

TREND Information, Azerbaijan
Dec 5 2006

We hope 2007 will go down in history as the year of breakthrough
of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister,
Rafet Akgunay, stated while giving a speech at the OSCE Ministerial
meeting in Brussels, Trend reports. He stressed that In light of the
recent briefing by the Co-chairs of the Minsk Group in Vienna, Turkey
is heartened by the continuing enhanced dialogue between Azerbaijan
and Armenia. "We are pleased to record expression of optimism, albeit
with a dose of caution, that the prospect of a political resolution
in the history of this conflict has never been so close. We hope 2007
will go down in history as the year of breakthrough," said Akgunay.