AHMET DAVUTOGLU: "TURKEY IS FULLY COORDINATING ITS POLICIES WITH AZERBAIJAN"
APA
April 26 2010
Azerbaijan
Baku – APA. "The occupied territories of Azerbaijan will be the top
issue on the agenda of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during his
upcoming visit to Turkey.
Turkey sees this issue as our own problem and we are trying to keep
this issue on agenda everywhere. Turkey is fully coordinating
its policies with Azerbaijan and nobody can deal a blow to
Turkish-Azerbaijani friendship. Everyone should know it very well",
said Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu in his address to the
Turkish parliament on April 26. "Turkey’s relationship with Armenia
will normalize in the same way as with other countries. We want to
realize it. In parallel, Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict will find
its solution by ending the occupation of Azerbaijani lands. The
Armenia-Azerbaijan border will also open just as the Turkey-Armenia
border opens… That is our perspective of peace. It means that there
will be a corridor from Erzrum to Central Asia".
The minister said Turkey has the right to take "necessary precautions"
if the protocols were interpreted against their spirit. He said
the parliaments would ratify the protocols while relevant political
situation was created. Davutoglu said dynamics were created on the eve
of 24 April as it was every year and Turkey showed necessary reaction
to that. "Mr. Sargsyan recently announced that he had frozen the
process concerning the ratification of the protocols with Turkey but
made it clear that he had not permanently suspended the normalization
process. For his part, the parliaments will ratify the protocols once
political conditions were ripe".
Davutoglu said Turkey was not an ordinary country and Ankara was
taking deep interest in the developments in Azerbaijan, Armenia and
Georgia. "We don’t want status quo to continue in the Caucasus because
it is not in favor of fraternal Azerbaijan, Armenia or Georgia and
Russia and Iran as well. But there were not brave actions to change
this status quo. Our purpose is to change this status quo in right
direction. The stone has already moved from the place and it should
be set in its place that it can bring peace and stability to the
Caucasus. This is our purpose".