NAGORNO KARABAKH CONFLICT SHOULDN’T BE HOSTAGE OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2009 23:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ By no means should the progress in Nagorno Karabakh
settlement be a hostage of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation, Russian
Co-chair of OSCE Minsk Group Juri Merzlyakov said in an interview
with Ekho Moskvi radio station.
"Initially, starting that process, Armenian and Turkish sides agreed,
that the process will last without any preliminary conditions,
or preconditions, as they say. Among such conditions previously
Turkey considered progress in Nagorno Karabakh settlement. It means,
it conditioned Armenian-Turkish reconciliation by a tangible leap in
Nagorno Karabakh settlement," he said.
According to him, if believe to the comments, related to recent
agreement of joint statement of foreign ministries of Armenia, Turkey
and Switzerland, playing a role of mediator, one must suppose that
there are no preconditions from each side.
"Therefore we think that the processes certainly affect each
other. However, that impacts should be positive to enable the
processes develop parallel, without intersecting. Something will be
obviously attained earlier somewhere, or later in some other place,
but co-chairmen’s position is the following. The main thing is not
to turn our process, the Nagorno Karabakh settlement into the hostage
of Armenian-Turkish reconciliation," stressed Merzlyakov.