PRESIDENT: ARMENIA MORE STRENGTHENED FROM ARMENIAN-TURKISH DIALOGUE
17:27 10/04/2009
Source: Panorama.am
`We have been announcing for many times that neither the issue of the
Nagorno Karabakh conflict nor the Genocide have been discussed in the
Armenian-Turkish negotiations. It is possible that the Turkish
negotiators break the agreements we have made. I am not feeling
responsible for them, as I can be responsible for Armenia and for our
positions only. Our position and mission is to set relations without
any conditions,’ said the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan in a
press conference regarding the recent rumors over the Armenian-Turkish
relations.
According to the President any condition is not put on the table to
impede the progress, and the recognition of the Genocide is not a
condition even. `I think that the ball is currently in the Turkish
field if we imagine a football match. But according the football
strategy the ball can not stay in their field longer. It is possible
that they change their minds and strategy and adopt quite different
position now. But I think that even if it happens we’ll come out of
that situation more strengthened,’ said the President. Regarding the
opening of the closed Armenian-Turkish border, the President repeated
his statement used in his interview to Russian `Vesti’: `I think that
when the next football match of Armenia-Turkey takes places, I’ll pass
the border or it will be the eve of that. Maybe this is an optimistic
view point and maybe my optimistic view is not realized.’