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    Yeghisabet Vorskanian
  • 3 years ago
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RFE/RL Armenian Report – 03/12/2022

                                        Saturday, 


Turkish, Armenian FMs Hold ‘Very Productive’ Talks

        • Lusine Musayelian
        • Tatevik Sargsian

Turkey - Foreign Ministers Mevlut Cavusoglu of Turkey and Ararat Mirzoyan of 
Armenia meet in Antalya, 


Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu held on Saturday what he described as 
“very productive” talks with his visiting Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan 
which highlighted ongoing attempts to normalize Turkish-Armenian relations.

Cavusoglu and Mirzoyan met on the sidelines of an international security forum 
in the Turkish resort city of Antalya following two rounds of negotiations held 
by special envoys of the two neighboring states.

“We had a very productive and constructive meeting,” Cavusoglu told reporters.

“Everyone will benefit from the establishment of peace and stability in the 
region, and we will continue to make efforts in that direction,” he said. “I and 
Mr. Mirzoyan agreed on this issue.”

“During the meeting we reaffirmed the readiness of the two sides to continue, 
without any preconditions, the normalization process for the purpose of 
establishing [diplomatic] relations and opening border,” Mirzoyan said, for his 
part. “Our two representatives are working on this.”

Neither minister announced concrete understandings reached by them.

Mirzoyan last month voiced cautious optimism over the success of the 
Turkish-Armenian dialogue welcomed by the United States, the European Union and 
Russia.

Cavusoglu said on Saturday that Azerbaijan is also “content” with the dialogue. 
Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov was also attending the Antalya 
conference.

Ankara has for decades linked the establishment of diplomatic relations with 
Yerevan and the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border to a resolution of the 
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan. Cavusoglu has repeatedly 
made clear that his government will coordinate the Turkish-Armenian 
normalization talks with Baku.


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