ARMENIA AND TURKEY HAVE IDENTIFIED A ROAD-MAP, ABOUT WHICH THE MINISTRIES OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF BOTH COUNTRIES HAVE MADE A JOINT STATEMENT
NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 23,2009
YEREVAN
"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". About this was said in the joint statement of
the Ministries of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the
Republic of Turkey and the Swiss Federal Department of foreign affairs.
"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", was said in the joint statement.
Later, in response to media’s questions RA Foreign Ministry
Spokesperson Tigran Balayan explained that the word combination
"road map" is an accepted and used notion in diplomatic lexicon,
which means plan of steps to be undertaken.