TURKISH PM EXPECTED TO DISCUSS KARABAKH DURING US VISIT
news.az
April 6 2010
Azerbaijan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan Baku believes that the Karabakh conflict will
be a key topic of discussion during Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s
visit to the USA.
The head of the public policy department at the Azerbaijani
Presidential Administration, Ali Hasanov, commented on the issue today.
‘We expect that the United States, as one of the co-chairs of the OSCE
Minsk Group, will bring pressure to bear and force Armenia to take
a constructive position on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict,’ Hasanov said.
The establishment of normal relations between Armenia and Turkey and
the creation of normal conditions for collaboration in the region,
as well as the restoration of all communication and transportation
corridors in the South Caucasus depend on Armenia giving up its policy
of occupation, Hasanov said.
‘So we think that one of the issues discussed at Erdogan’s meetings in
the United States will be a mechanism for putting pressure on Armenia.’
Speaking about the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan,
Ali Hasanov said that on the eve of the parliamentary elections, the
government would create the necessary conditions for all political
parties to operate under the law.
‘If activities are conducted within the framework of the law, the
government will create all the right conditions,’ he said.