ARMENIA AND TURKEY HAMMER OUT NORMALIZATION ROAD MAP

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2009/04/23 | 13:09

Below is the full text of a joint statement, dated April 22, 2009,
of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the
Republic of Turkey and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

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 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.