SERZH SARGSYAN: TOGETHER WITH PRESIDENT OF TURKEY WE DECIDED NOT TO LEAVE THE PROBLEMS OF OUR COUNTRIES TO NEXT GENERATIONS

ArmInfo
2008-09-25 14:38:00

ArmInfo. ‘During our meeting with President of Turkey Abdullah
Gul we decided not to leave the problems of our countries to next
generations’, President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said at a reception
organized by the Armenian Embassy in the USA, Permanent Representation
of Armenia at the UN and by leading Armenians organizations of America,
the presidential press-service reports.

He said he believes that it is time for settling the problems in
Armenian-Turkish relations and he is ready for it and his Turkish
counterpart is also ready to make difficult decisions. ‘All this allows
me to hope that we will not continue the way leaving the problems to
next generation and will not invent mechanisms of dragging-out’, he
said. The president mentioned that after the negotiations in Yerevan
Turkish foreign minister declared that Turkey is ready to look back
to the past, and face the resolutions by the supposed commission.

He also highlighted the readiness of the Turkish president to
contribute to settling the Karabakh conflict. ‘We have always welcomed
any assistance that had favorable impact on the mediation of OSCE Minsk
Group and the initiative of the Turkish president may prove such. Our
key task in the settlement is to persuade the Azerbaijani party through
negotiations that recognition of Nagorny Karabakh people’s right to
self-determination is inevitable’, the President of Armenia said.