TURKEY SHOULD NOT INTERVENE IN KARABAKH SETTLEMENT – ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER

Mediamax Agency, Armenia
Dec 19 2007

Yerevan, 19 December: Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said
today in Yerevan that "regardless of its liking for Azerbaijan,
Turkey has no right to intervene in the process of the Nagornyy
Karabakh settlement, as this problem applies to Nagornyy Karabakh
and Azerbaijan, Armenians and Azerbaijanis."

While speaking at the parliamentary session on "Armenian-Turkish
relations: Problems and Prospects", the foreign minister said that
"the Turkish side is displaying a distorted approach in response to
Armenia’s fair proposals", the Armenian news agency Mediamax reported.

Oskanyan said Turkey missed the historic opportunity to normalize
relations with Armenia twice – after the collapse of the Soviet Union
and in 2003 when the negotiations on Turkey’s accession to the European
Union started.

The Armenian foreign minister accused Turkey of serious violations of
the Kars and Moscow treaties signed in the early 1920s, which settled
the issue of borders and diplomatic relations.

Oskanyan said that a draft memorandum on the establishment of
diplomatic ties between Armenia and Turkey was prepared in 1993,
but this document was not signed because of the preconditions set
by Turkey.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress