BAKU: Azerbaijan Foreign Minister: Opening Of The Turkey-Armenia Bor

AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER: OPENING OF THE TURKEY-ARMENIA BORDER BEFORE THE RELEASE OF KARABAKH CONTRADICTS THE COUNTRY’S INTERESTS

Azerbaijan Business Center
April 16 2009

Today Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov received in Baku
American co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Matthew Bryza.

Mammadyarov said that during the meeting the sides discussed current
state of the settlement process taking into consideration new factors
in the region.

"First of all this concerns the issues on opening of the Turkey-Armenia
border," Mammadyarov said.

He reminded about Azerbaijan’s adherence to the policy of
non-intervention in relations between the third countries.

"On the other hand, if Armenian forces are not withdrawn from the
occupied territories (opening of the Turkey-Armenia border), this
will contradict our interests," Mammadyarov said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS