TURKISH PREMIER SAYS INITIALED DEAL WITH ARMENIA TO BE SENT TO PARLIAMENT
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24.09.2009 16:00
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he believed
an initialed deal with Armenia could be brought to the Turkish
parliament soon.
"We have reached an important stage with the step we have taken with
Switzerland’s mediation, and I believe we can send the initialed
document to the parliament if we do not face any prejudice and if
steps are not taken by just thinking about the internal politics,"
Erdogan told a conference at the Princeton University in New York.
Erdogan said that the document would be sent on October 10 or 11.
The Turkish prime minister said that the president of Armenia could
visit Turkey for a World Cup qualifier between Turkey and Armenia in
October with comfort as the Turkish president visited Armenia for an
away match last year.
"Turkey will have neighborly relations with Armenia within the
framework of mutual respect," he also said.
Erdogan said there was need for a dialogue platform that would bring
together regional countries, and therefore Turkey proposed to set up
a stability and cooperation platform in the Caucasus.
The Turkish prime minister said Turkey aimed to make the region a basin
of peace, and wanted to solve Azerbaijan-Armenia, Turkey-Armenia and
Russia-Georgia problems through this platform, Today’s Zaman reported.