SERZH SARGSYAN: TURKEY’S ENGAGEMENT IN KARABAKH PROCESS RULED OUT

PanARMENIAN.Net
26.02.2010 00:09 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan stated that if
the RA-Turkey rapprochement doesn’t come to a logical end in the
shortest terms, Armenia will withdraw its signature from the Protocols.

In a talk with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Kyiv,
President Sargsyan also ruled out Turkey’s engagement in the Nagorno
Karabakh conflict settlement process. "A country with one-sided
position on the issue can’t be a mediator. Turkey has always supported
Azerbaijan in the process," he said.

"Furthermore, a country dreaming of a region ‘without closed borders’
should first open the border it closed itself. If Azerbaijan’s pressure
prevents Turkey from ratification of protocols, so nothing prevents it
from opening the closed border with its neighbor," the President said.

It’s notable that the conversation during the inauguration ceremony
of Ukraine’s President- elect Viktor Yanukovych, was initiated by
Turkish Foreign Minister, after the Armenian President excluded any
possibility of meeting in private.