WHOM CONFLICTING STATEMENTS ARE MADE FOR AND WHY?

Aysor
Nov 11 2009
Armenia

"EU, OSCE Minsk Group, and Turkey’s officials make conflicting
statements," said at today’s press conference Director of Caucasus
Media Institute, Alexander Iskandaryan, when asked by correspondent
of Aysor on-line paper to comment last developing and statements made
on issue of settlement of Karabakh problem

In particularly, the correspondent asked about two statements: of one
made by Turkish representative in OSCE that Turkey must become co-chair
of OSCE Minsk Group, and another made by EU Special Representative
for South Caucasus, Peter Semneby, on ‘current status quo in the
Karabakh conflict is not beneficial for Armenia’.

Alexander Iskandaryan said these statements cannot be viewed in the
context of normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations despite the
undirected link between closed by Turkey border and Karabakh conflict.

It is necessary to understand who these statements are made for
and why, the analyst says pointing that Turkey’s government is in a
very difficult situation because of protests against normalization
relations with Armenia and, in this connection, tensions between
Turkey and Azerbaijan.

Referring to the statements on links between Armenian-Turkish relations
and issue of Karabakh, Alexander Iskandaryan mentioned two signed
protocols with clear states: these two issues have no links.

"The protocols have not a single word about Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
and Azerbaijan," stressed the analyst adding that one shouldn’t
predict what might happen in the settlement of the Karabakh problem
before ratification in Turkey’s Parliament.