SERGEY MINASYAN: THE FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY HAS EXHAUSTED ITSELF
Liana Yeghiazaryan

"Radiolur"
26.04.2010 18:57

Political scientist Sergey Minasyan predicts a new format for
normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations. He says the football
diplomacy has exhausted itself. For Armenia, this is not only an
Armenian-Turkish process, since it is related to the Karabakh issue
to some extent.

Armenia is attempting to solve its problems with Turkey and Azerbaijan
in different ways, but over the past two years Armenia did not manage
to fully separate the two.

"However, the fact that Baku is not 100% sure Turkey will always
support it at least strategically and will stand by Azerbaijan in
case military actions resume, caused certain misunderstanding inside
Azerbaijan and created mistrust. The same cannot be said about Ankara,"
Sergey Minasyan said.