AZERBAIJAN SATISFIED WITH TURKEY’S KARABAKH POSITION

News.Az
April 13 2010
Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry has
reacted positively to statements by the Turkish PM following his
meeting with the Armenian president in the USA.

‘Azerbaijan is satisfied that Turkey’s position on the resolution
of the Karabakh conflict is unchanged. Baku is satisfied with the
position of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu,’ Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman
Elkhan Polukhov said, commenting on statements by Erdogan and Davutoglu
on the Karabakh conflict settlement.

Hurriyet newspaper said that the Turkish PM told Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan during their meeting in Washington yesterday of
‘Ankara’s support for Azerbaijan’s position on the occupation of
Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenians’. He said Turkey would not retreat a
single step on Karabakh.

‘Erdogan said that he wanted to see definite steps by Armenia to
withdraw from occupied Karabakh and that it would not make any
concessions on this issue,’ Hurriyet reported.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed in an interview
with Azerbaijani news agency APA that the Karabakh conflict was a
key issue in Erdogan’s talks with Sargsyan.