RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA: ARMENIAN-TURKISH DIALOGUE DOES NOT CROSS NAGORNYY KARABAKH SETTLEMENT

ArmInfo
2009-11-19 14:38:00

ArmInfo. ‘Because of some agiotage appeared in connection of Andrey
Nesterenko’s statement, I would like to say that Russia’s position was
and remains unchangeable: the Armenian-Turkish dialogue does not cross
Nagornyy Karabakh settlement’, – Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Ambassador of Russia to Armenia Vaycheslav Kovalenko said to Arminfo
correspondent.

To recall, representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrey
Nesterenko said: ‘As for as I know, in the Yerevan-Ankara negotiating
process they also touched on the problems of Nagornyy Karabakh.’

Kovalenko said that Russia considers the process on normalization of
the Armenian-Turkish relations and the Karabakh conflict settlement
process – the two quite different processes, with their own logic.

They do not come across each other. He also added this position of
the Russian party was voiced at the top level, including on the level
of Foreign Ministry of Russia.

The ambassador said that the Russian party welcomes signing of
the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which lead to normalization of the
bilateral relations. ‘Ratification of the Protocols, we would like
them to be ratified as soon as possible, in general, will promote
resolving of all the problems of the region’, – Kovalenko said.