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ANKARA: Armenian foreign minister to visit Turkey as relations warm

Hürriyet, Turkey
April 5 2009

Armenian foreign minister to visit Turkey as relations warm

ISTANBUL – Armenia’s foreign minister will visit Turkey this week, the
Interfax news agency reported Sunday, in the latest sign of a warming
in relations between the two countries after decades of broken ties.

Armenian Foreign Minister Eduard Nalbandian begins a two-day visit on
Monday to attend a United Nation’s cultural forum in Istanbul, the
news agency said, citing the foreign ministry in Yerevan.

Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic relations and their border has
been closed for more than a decade over Armenia’s invasion of 20
percent territory of Azerbaijan – a frozen conflict legacy of the
Soviet Union called Nagorno-Karabakh.

Both countries have however been engaged in a normalization process
since Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a landmark visit to Yerevan
last year to watch a World Cup qualifying football match between the
countries national teams.

Officials from the two countries have stepped up contacts in recent
months, including Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian
President Serzh Sarkisian, who held a landmark bilateral meeting in
January.

Nalbandian visited Turkey last November.

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
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