RUBEN SAFRASTYAN: NO FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS
Lilit Muradyan

"Radiolur"
21.01.2009 14:36

Director of the Oriental Studies Institute of the National Academy
of Sciences of Armenia Ruben Safrastyan today spoke about the current
stage of Amnesia-Turkish relations and the perspectives of development.

According to Safrastyan’s assessment, no fundamental changes have
taken place in the Armenian-Turkish relations. Turning to "football
diplomacy," Ruben Safrastyan said the relations established between the
Presidents of the two countries will be followed by the establishment
of diplomatic relations.

"To evaluate the current stage of Armenian-Turkish relations it is
necessary to compare those with the phase that existed a few years ago.

There have been no fundamental changes, there are no diplomatic
relations.

There are, however, certain positive moves connected with football
diplomacy," Ruben Safrastyan said, meaning the direct contacts between
the Presidents of Armenia and Turkey. According to the speaker,
these relations tend to continue.