RUSSIA HOPES ON ARMENIA-TURKEY RECONCILIATION, SAYS MEDVEDEV

Aysor
May 12 2010
Armenia

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev said he hopes Armenia and Turkey
would reconcile and normalise relations between the two nations.

"I hope that the sides will all in all be able to agree on necessary
solutions and will fully reconcile," Interfax quoted Medvedev as
saying after meeting with Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul in Ankara.

Medvedev said that the normalisation of relations will contribute to
stability in the region, development of the economical relations and
will result in improvement of the living conditions in every state
of the region. Russian President said he welcomes the process and
intends to pay a special attention to it using "the opportunities
that the Russian Federation has got." Medvedev said: "However, the
decision depends on the two nations after all."

Dmitry Medvedev said he hopes the positive move, which had given an
impetus to the process of reconciliation after the protocols were
signed in Zurich, will be continued.

"Surely, these processes are not simple and have different responses
both in Turkey and Armenia as for obvious reasons the problem hadn’t
been solved for a long time," Medvedev said.