Interfax, Russia
Feb 7 2009
Armenia says getting close to normal relations with Turkey
YEREVAN Feb 7
Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandian said Armenia and Turkey
are getting close to normalizing their relations.
"I have had a constructive meeting with the Turkish foreign minister
[Ali Babacan]. We are moving ahead and are approaching the
normalization of relations between our countries," Armenian Foreign
Ministry spokesman Tigran Balayan quoted Nalbandian as telling
reporters on the fringes of the 45th annual Munich Security
Conference.
The two ministers met in Munich on Friday.
Balayan cited Nalbandian as saying Armenia and Turkey were using
various conferences and forums as opportunities to seek normalizing
their relations.
Nalbandian also said the co-chairmen of the Minsk Group, a body
appointed by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
to mediate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, might visit the South
Caucasus late this month.