THIRD COUNTRY CLOSE TO PANIC

PanAremenian News
April 23 2009
Armenia

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Caucasus Institute Director, political scientist
Alexander Iskandaryan said it is hard to speak beyond the contents
of the Armenian-Turkish agreement at present.

"The agreement proved that normalization of relations between
two countries is in process. Comments on agreement in Armenia are
motivated more politically than analytically. At the same time,
different third country sources were posting their information on
details of agreement. And that is an indicator of their panic,"
told PanARMENIAN.Net said Armenian expert.

On April 22, Armenia and Turkey agreed on road-map to normalize
ties. The joint statement issued by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs
of Armenia and Turkey said that 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," the statement said.