Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Sarkisyan rejects Turkish preconditions in Ankara-Yerevan talks

Armenian President Serge Sarkisian criticized Turkey for committing to a precondition that links normalizing bilateral relations with the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.

Turkey and Armenia held talks aimed at normalizing relations for a year and agreed on two documents, Sarkisian was quoted by Russia’s ITAR-Tass news agency as telling young representatives of Armenian diaspora on Thursday.

"But after that certain political forces in Turkey attempted to advance preconditions and link the establishment of diplomatic relations with Armenia to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations," he added.

Sarkisian said Armenia "extended a hand" to Turkey despite historic problems such as the 1915 incidents.

Armenian News

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