ARMENIA, TURKEY AND SWITZERLAND POSITIVELY ASSESS THE ROAD-MAP SIGNED BETWEEN YEREVAN AND ANKARA

ArmInfo
2009-04-23 08:52:00

ArmInfo. Turkey and Armenia, together with Switzerland as
mediator, have been working intensively with a view to normalizing
their bilateral relations and developing them in a spirit of
good-neighborliness, and mutual respect, and thus to promoting peace,
security and stability in the whole region, the joint statement of
the Armenian and Turkish Foreign Ministry’s and the Swiss Federal
Department of Foreign Affairs says.

The two parties have achieved tangible progress and mutual
understanding in this process and they have agreed on a comprehensive
framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations in a
mutually satisfactory manner. In this context, a road-map has been
identified. This agreed basis provides a positive prospect for the
on-going process.

To recall, a road-map was signed between Armenia and Turkey on April
23 under mediation of Switzerland laying basis for settlement of the
Armenian-Turkish relations having been interrupted in 1993 because
of the events in Nagorno Karabakh. Turkey in this conflict openly
supported Azerbaijan.