ERDOGAN TO DISCUSS FOUR ISSUES ON ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS IN U.S.
Tert
Sept 21 2009
Armenia
Today, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu left for the U.S. to participate in the
64th session of the UN General Assembly. As Turkish media informs,
Erdogan and Davutoglu are going to discuss the issue of establishing
relations with Armenia in the US, and four issues will be touched
upon in that context:
According to Turkish news source Hurriyet, Erdogan will again try to
connect the process of establishing Armenian-Turkish relations with
the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, noting that the issue of improving
relations can be discussed if:
a) Minsk Group makes its most important step in New York for
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, b) Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu
and Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian sign the protocol in
Switzerland prior to October 14, c) Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan
comes to Bursa for the national football match, d) Turkish, Armenian,
American, French, British and Swedish historians are in the joint
history commission and there will be eminent persons.
Three days ago, Erdogan had stated again that the Armenian-Turkish
border will be opened only in case the Nagorno-Karabakh issue
is settled, to which Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian
responded:
"If Turkey’s leadership has issues connected with the signing of the
documents, it shouldn’t attempt to solve those issues in contradiction
of the spirit, character and objectives of the presigned documents."