SYMBOLIC DECLARATION ON NAGORNO-KARABAKH POSSIBLE SOON, EXPERT SAYS

news.am
Jan 18 2010
Armenia

A new declaration on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict may be adopted
this January or February, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the
Institute of Caucasus, stated during a Yerevan-Moscow space bridge.

According to him, many in Turkey are against the Armenian-Turkish
normalization an, in the context of Ankara’s statements on the need
for progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, "a paper with
something written about progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process
would be quite to the point." Iskandaryan said that a declaration
similar to the Mayendorf declaration would be a document Turkey needs.

He also stated that the major problems of Armenian-Turkish relations
are in Ankara, rather than in Yerevan. In Armenia, a number of
intellectuals, journalists, public leaders, as well as some sections of
the population, are against the Armenian-Turkish protocols. As regards
Turkey, the public at large, the Establishment, representatives of
the ruling party and top brass, nationalist forces, Foreign Ministry
officials and members of the Turkish presidential staff – all of them
object to the protocol.