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Time for opening Armenian-Turkish border hasn’t come yet
05.09.2008 15:53 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A visit is not beginning of talks, said Svante
Cornell, research director of the Stockholm Central Asia-Caucasus
Institute.

It should be taken as a gesture, according to him.

`Turkey will not change its tough policy toward Armenia and the time
to open the border with Armenia hasn’t come yet. Turkey made this move
not on its own accord, but under U.S. pressure, as the war in Abkhazia
and South Ossetia seriously affected Armenia’s economy,’ Cornell said.

`West understands that only restoration of relations with Turkey can
help to revive economy in Armenia,’ he added, Trend Azeri news agency
reports.