TO INFLUENCE BAKU ARMENIA SHOULD WITHDRAW FROM KARS AGREEMENT AND RAISE NAKHICHEVAN ISSUE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
02.12.2009 20:04 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey and Azerbaijan are trying to link
Armenia-Turkey relations to NKR conflict, RPA parliamentary group
member Gagik Melikyan said.

"It’s natural, but they won’t be allowed to do so," he stressed at the
joint news conference with former NKR Foreign Minister Arman Melikyan.

Yet, the latter disagreed, noting that though there’s no formal link
between Armenia-Turkey protocols and NKR conflict settlement, still
there is a procedural one.

"Armenia-Turkey border is unlikely to be opened until the spring 2010.

All the while, Turkey will be convincing the international community
of the impossibility to open the border without some progress in
Karabakh conflict settlement," Arman Melikyan emphasized.

"To influence Baku, Armenia should withdraw from Kars agreement and
raise Nakhichevan issue," Arman Melikyan noted adding that withdrawal
from agreement and Protocols’ ratification will allow Armenia to turn
over a new leaf in relations with Turkey.