TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY’S SPOKESMAN: "IT IS VERY STRANGE LOGIC TO EXPECT US TO PUT ASIDE KARABAKH ISSUE FOR PROTOCOL WITH ARMENIA"

APA
April 29 2010
Azerbaijan

Baku – APA. "Armenian newspapers think that Turkey shouldn’t
take interest in Karabakh issue any more because it chose way of
normalization of relations with Armenia and signed protocols.

It is impossible to understand this logic because it is very strange
to expect us not to pay attention to the region except normalization
of relations with Armenia because we signed the protocols", said
Spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry Burak Ozugergin in a press
conference in Ankara on April 29, APA reports quoting the Turkish news
agencies. He said this issue was not a zero-sum game that if Turkey
won relations with Armenia it should lose in Karabakh or on contrary.

"Twice two is four in mathematics, but it can be 5 or 6 in the
international relations. Peace process in the Caucasus is also so. If
relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia are normalized, we will
normalize our relations with Armenia and synergy it creates will be
greater. We intend to achieve it".

Ozugergin added that no meetings or negotiations were scheduled with
Armenian in near future. The diplomat didn’t answer the question about
the appointment of former OSCE Minsk Group co-chair Matthew Bryza as
US ambassador to Azerbaijan.