ERDOGAN:TURKEY WILL NOT OPEN THE BORDER WITH ARMENIA BEFORE KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

ArmRadio.am
08.02.2007 11:54

Turkey will not open the border with Armenia before the settlement of
the Karabakh conflict, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
declared during the meeting with Azerbaijani Defense Minister Safar
Abiev.

"We should continue our fellowship, our unity will greatly benefit us,"
declared Erdogan, noting that Turkey will maintain the cooperation
with Azerbaijan in military and other spheres.

For his part, providing "information" on the Karabakh conflict, Abiev
underlined that the peace talks are yielding no results. "That is
why we are intensively reinforcing the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan,"
Abiev declared.