APA, Azerbaijan
May 9 2009

Recep Tayyip Erdogan: `Armenia must end the occupation of Azerbaijani
lands that we can open the borders with it’

[ 09 May 2009 13:43 ]

Baku `APA. `We closed the borders with Armenia because occupation of
Azerbaijani lands. They must end the occupation that we can open the
borders’, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT-Turk,
APA reports.

The Prime Minister said there was no problem in the relations between
Azerbaijan and Turkey. He expressed concern over the disinformation.

Erdogan said it was impossible to accept the historic claims in the
issue of relations with Armenia. `There is a reason and a result it
caused. The Upper Garabagh was occupied by Armenians. One million
Azerbaijanis were expelled from their homeland. Therefore we closed
the borders. The occupation is a reason and the closing of borders is
a result. They have to lift the reason that we can open the borders’.