TURKEY IS SURE THAT PRECISELY IT ACTIVATED SETTLEMENT OF ARMENIAN-AZERBAIJANI CONFLICT
Azerbaijan Business Center
Oct 22 2009
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey has
its own bizarre interpretation of the latest events in the process of
peaceful settlement of Nagorno Garabagh conflict between Azerbaijan
and Armenia.
Today in Baku Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu has stated that Turkey could
put into motion the negotiation process for a short period.
"Azerbaijani lands are also our lands and we are going to fight for
them to the end," he said.
He is sure that only thanks to Turkey’s activity for the last five
months the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia have had five meetings.
"For this time Turkey achieved much more success than any other
country for all these years. And all that due to the Platform of
Stability & Development in the Caucasus" proposed by Turkey. In the
meeting with US president Barak Obama the first issue raised by us was
Garabagh. During my meeting with secretary of state Hillary Clinton
held these days the matter of Garabagh was again at first place.
Turkey will always raise this matter against the odds. We claim openly
to the Azerbaijani society that territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is
dear for us as well as the Turkish one. We will never damage to it,"
Davutoglu underlined.
He said that Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia are countries of the
region which have potential of co-operation.
"For 18 years of occupation we have do our best and are going to do
our best for release of occupied territories of Azerbaijan. As well as
the previous government of Turkey, the current one will never change
its policy on Garabagh and nothing will damage our unity and change
Turkey’s strategy on this issue," Davutoglu stated.
Participating in the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of
the Black Sea Economic Co-operation (BSEC) member states Davutoglu
also had a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov.
"We’ve had a sincere and open dialogue. I want to point out that we are
single party. I personally gave a written order to 120 embassies and
180 consulates of Turkey throughout the world to accept Azerbaijanians
as citizens of Turkey and tackle their problems. I told Mammadyarov:
"These are your embassies and consulates and any Azerbaijani citizen
can apply there to solve his problems," Davutoglu emphasized.
Nevertheless, the second participant of the Turkish-Armenian
protocols signed on 10 October has quite another point of view on
the above-mentioned problem.
Deputy foreign minister Aram Kirakosyan, in his turn, claimed in Baku
that the process of normalization of Turkish-Armenian ties and the
process of conflict settlement are two quite different processes.
"Armenian-Turkish links are ties between two sovereign states and in
legal plan they have no relation to the negotiation process around
Nagorno Garabagh. Armenia and Turkey signed two documents to be
subjected to ratification. And after ratification, if everything
goes normally, the borders between the two countries will open in
two months, and work of the bilateral intergovernmental commission
will begin in three months," Kirakosyan claimed.
Turkey states that it will not ratify the protocols with Armenia until
settlement of Garabagh conflict following which Armenia has occupied
20% of Azerbaijani territory and evicted 1 million people from their
residence places.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
