NEXT WEEK PRIME MINISTER OF TURKEY TO DISCUSS IN AZERBAIJAN THE CAUCASIAN UNION PLATFORM SUPPORTED BY RUSSIA AND GEORGIA
Azerbaijan Business Center
15.08.2008 15:14
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan
could bring Russia and Georgia being in a factual war condition this
week, to a common opinion relating to availability of his initiative
of founding the Caucasian Union.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said as a result of his two-day visit to Moscow
and Tbilisi (August 13-14) the co-operation platform suggested by
Turkey has been supported by Russia and Georgia.
"Next week the platform will be discussed during the visit to Baku. We
hope that Azerbaijan will accept it as well. The new co-operation
platform will help settling the ethnic conflicts in the region ", –
Erdogan said.
Simultaneously he said that for 13 years of activity the OSCE
Minsk group, it has not achieved any progress in settling the
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict for Nagorno Karabakh.
"The new platform will help the each country of the region to
understand its responsibility for implemented projects and provide the
stableness on Caucasus and co-operation when fulfilling the principle
of social equity," Erdogan said.
Creation of the Caucasian union will allow to solve conflicts on
Caucasus based on principles of the Kara agreement between Russia and
Turkey of 1921 which has given guarantees for existence of Nakhchivan
Autonomous Republic in the structure of Azerbaijan. On the potential
the Caucasian union will concede only to the European Union (under
condition of connection of Russia to the Union), but will surpass it
on power and raw security, as well as on number of armed forces.