NKR NEUTRAL TO ARMENIAN-TURKISH DIALOGUE

News.am
15:39 / 09/24/2009

Stepanakert will not interfere in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue or in
the positions the Armenian authorities and people are taking, Georgy
Petrosyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
(NKR), stated in his interview with the Turkish NTV channel.

"Our position is quite clear: we have never interfered in Armenia’s
life despite issues of pan-Armenian importance we are concerned over
in the context of the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement," Petrosyan
said. He expressed a wish that Turkey show a similar attitude to the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, without linking it with the Armenian-Turkish
dialogue.

"We would like the two issues be separated from each other. Attempts
to link them will hardly contribute to the settlement of the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Turkey is obviously hostage to its
own promises to Azerbaijan – it gave the promises and has to keep
them now," Petrosyan said. According to him, Turkey is becoming an
interested party in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. "It is being
perceived as a kind of pressure, but positive results can hardly be
attained by means of pressure," Petrosyan said.