TURKEY’S INITIATIVE TO SEND OBSERVERS "A LITTLE STRANGE"

Panorama.am
12:20 10/05/2007

"Turkey cannot choose what political relations it wants to have
with Armenia and what not. Political and diplomatic relations are
not subject for choosing," Vladimir Karapetyan, press secretary of
the Armenian foreign ministry, said today speaking about Armenia’s
refusal to issue visas to Turk observers. He said Turkey continues
keeping the Armenian border shut and refuses to enter into diplomatic
relations with Armenia. "Under these conditions sending observers
was a little strange," Karapetyan said.

"Armenia is sorry that Turkey did not demonstrate enough sensitivity
while sending observers to Armenia in the case when there are no
diplomatic relations between the two. We understand that OSCE is
concerned about Armenia’s commitments in front of OSCE and we reconfirm
our commitment to that. But we also expect that OSCE member state
anticipate that Turkey will keep to its commitment to established
normal, friendly relations with Armenia," press spokesman says.