ARMENIA AND TURKEY AGREE ON ROADMAP FOR NORMALIZATION OF TIES
Eurasianet
April 23, 2009
Armenia and Turkey have agreed on the general terms for normalizing
their relations, the foreign ministries of Armenia and Turkey and
the Foreign Affairs Department of Switzerland announced in an April
22 statement. Details of the agreement have not been specified.
According to the document, Yerevan and Ankara, in a recent round of
Swiss-mediated talks, made significant progress toward a rapprochement
on mutually acceptable terms, Regnum news agency and A1plus news
site reported. A roadmap was created that will help the two sides
to reconcile their positions on disputed matters, Regnum said citing
Armenia’s foreign ministry.
The document reportedly makes no mention of the two sides’ main
stumbling blocks: Armenia’s call for recognition of the killing
of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War I as genocide and
Turkey’s call for Armenia to withdraw its forces from the disputed
Nagorno-Karabakh region and surrounding territory.