ARMENIA, TURKEY STILL HAVE CHANCE TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS: RUSSIAN MFA

Panorama.am
23/04/2010

"We admit that at the current stage, Armenia and Turkey have not been
able to achieve the result that would allow the two neighboring states
to restore their relations, to improve the political atmosphere in
Transcaucasia and to create conditions for strengthening stability in
the region," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said.

"Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said on April 22 that Yerevan
would suspend the ratification of the protocols intended to normalize
relations with Turkey, but it would not revoke its signatures. The
process launched a year ago to normalize relations between Armenia
and Turkey still has a future.

We express hope that the two countries will be able to sort
out the current complex situation and to create conditions for a
full-fledged normalization effort, in which all states of the region
are interested," Nesterenko’s statement said.