RUSSIA’S MFA SAYS PROTOCOL DOES NOT THREAT INTERESTS OF THIRD STATE

Panorama.am
15:19 02/09/2009

Russia approves Armenia’s and Turkey’s preparedness to start in-house
discussions addressed to the regulation of ties, Russia’s Foreign
Ministry’s PR department reports.

"Armenia and Turkey are relative countries for us. The advancement
between their relations is natural and long desired. We’d be happy
to find that those discussions, which are in-house problems of those
states, result in substantive agreements," message writes.

According to the message the protocols, their content have been well
discussed in Moscow and came to a conclusion that "both Yerevan and
Ankara should decisive enough. Note that neither part of the protocol
threats the interests of any third state," Russia’s MFA official
message says.

"Russia’s official representatives have been always calling on their
Armenian and Turkish colleagues to regulate the problems in pragmatic
way," message writes.