Turkish Prime Minister makes ultimatum to USA

2009-12-05 14:53:00

ArmInfo. Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made an
ultimatum to the USA.

"We have announced to the U.S. representatives since the beginning
that if you want to resolve Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, you should also
resolve the Turkish-Armenian issue. Otherwise, you will fail to
resolve it," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his
interview with Azerbaijan’s local ANS TV channel, Day.az reported.

Erdogan said the conflict will be resolved if the members of OSCE
Minsk Group, U.S., France and Russia exert more efforts to resolve it.
He said that Karabakh issue will also be discussed at the meeting
with Obama.

"This is because the Turkish-Armenian issue and the Nagorno-Karabakh
problem are interrelated. I told it to Barack Obama and Dmitry
Medvedev, and they replied: "We will accelerate this question."

"If Obama and Medvedev demonstrate political will and the
Sargsyan-Aliyev negotiations mark progress, I believe there will be a
positive result. If the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is settled, the
Turkish-Armenian problem will also be finally resolved," Erdogan said.