TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER: "OSCE MINSK GROUP FAILS TO ACHIEVE IMPROVEMENT IN THE SETTLEMENT OF NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT"

APA
May 25 2009
Azerbaijan

Damascus – APA. "OSCE Minsk Group fails to achieve improvement in the
settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict," Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu said, APA reports. Ahmet Davutoglu, who is in Damascus
to attend the 36th meeting of OIC Foreign Ministers Council, said
after the meeting he would leave for Baku together with Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov.

"We will leave for Baku together with Mr. Elmar Mammadyarov. Azerbaijan
is our brotherly country, with which we always have close relations
and share the same fate. It was so in the past and will be so in
future. Let no one doubt it. After the Turkish Republic of Northern
Cyprus I will pay my first official foreign visit to Azerbaijan,"
he said.

Ahmet Davutoglu said he would meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham
Aliyev in Baku: "I will meet with President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign
Minister Elmar Mammadyarov in Baku. We will discuss all issues,
including Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Activeness is felt in Nagorno
Karabakh conflict, which remains frozen for 17 years. Armenia’s keeping
Azerbaijan’s territories under occupation is not the situation meeting
the interests of both Turkey and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijani and Armenian
Presidents will have meetings soon in various formats. We hope that
this activeness will result with a solution satisfying all parties of
the frozen conflict". Ahmed Davudoglu said he shared the views told
by Azerbaijani officials about the OSCE Minsk Group: "The history
also proves the justness of these views, because no progress has been
achieved in solution of the conflict during the past period. It’s
time to take out this issue from the status of the frozen conflict.

Turkey will continue its endeavors in this direction".