US diplomat hails "improving" Armenian-Turkish relations

ArmInfo News Agency (in Russian), Armenia
Sept 13 2008

Stepanakert, 12 September: "Turkey’s initiative is very constructive.
Both [Armenian] President [Serzh] Sargsyan and [Turkish] President
[Abdullah] Gul took a big political risk and showed courage," Matthew
Bryza, the US co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group for the settlement of
the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, has told journalists when answering a
question on Turkey’s initiative to set up a stability and security
platform in the South Caucasus.

At the same time, the US diplomat noted: "I do not want Baku to think
that the situation has changed so much that any action needs to be
taken that could destroy the improving climate."

The US mediator said that it is necessary to complete the work on the
basic principles of the settlement [of the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict]
despite the fact that the relations between Armenian and Turkey are
changing.

"It is good that the relations between Armenia and Turkey are
improving because I think that such openness is making the climate
healthier and, therefore, Armenia can be more open in the talks. I may
be wrong but I hope so," Bryza added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS