VLADIMIR PUTIN: THE KARABAKH AND ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROBLEMS SHOULD NOT BE TIED IN ONE PACKAGE

ArmInfo
2010-01-14 12:34:00

ArmInfo. "Russia, like no other country, is interested in
normalization of relations in the region among al the countries –
our neighbours. Numerous invisible threads bind us with Azerbaijan
and Armenia", Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin said at a joint
press-conference with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan
in Moscow.

He emphasized that the Russian party is interested in prompt settlement
of all the problems, including the Karabakh one. "We very much hope all
elements of shortest approaches [to the normalization] will be used
in the negotiating process and Armenia’s leadership is also on this
positive path. The two issues should not be tied in one package. It
is difficult to solve each of these problems separately, and if one
tackles them in a single package, then prospects for their settlement
will automatically become very remote. Packaging these problems
is not quite right from the practical and strategic standpoints",
V. Putin emphasized.

Along with it, he said, solution of this problem, in the first case,
depends on Armenia and Azerbaijan, in the second case – on Turkey and
Armenia. "The role of Russia here is to support any positive aimed
at solution of these two complex problems", V. Putin resumed.