ARMENIAN PEOPLE ‘NOT READY’ TO COMPROMISE

news.az
May 17 2011
Azerbaijan

Armenian people are not ready for compromises, former co-chair of the
OSCE Minsk Group Kerry Kovano. According to Turkish mass media, while
speaking at a conference at the Uludag university of Turkish Bursa
on “Security in the South Caucasus: Azerbaijani-Turkish relations”,
the former co-chair of the Minsk Group said this was the reason of
failure of his mediation efforts.

As for Turkey’s role in settling problems in the South Caucasus,
he said this country has a great advantage in this issue:

“By using its relations with Azerbaijan, Turkey will be able to play
an important role in solving Caucasus problems. We have witnessed
that the active role of Turkey and Azerbaijan made such fantastic
projects as Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan and Baku-Tbilisi-Kars a reality. For
this reason I believe in peace in the region. Merely, Turkey should
realize the slogan of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: “Peace at home means
peace in the world” and in the Caucasus.

The military budget of Azerbaijan hits $3.5bn a year and this figure
overtops the whole state budget of Armenia and such huge funds could
be used for peaceful goals in the region”.