Expert: tying Armenian-Turkish relations to Karabakh peace process unjustified
YEREVAN, August 25. /ARKA/. Tying the Armenian-Turkish relations to the Karabakh peace process is artificial and unjustified, head of European Integration organization Karen Bekaryan told a press conference in Yerevan Tuesday.
“Turkey became a hostage of “one nation, two states” principle it announced itself. Artificial linkage between the two processes is based on this principle,” the expert said.Bekaryan believes that once Turkey ties the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations with the Karabakh problem Armenia will stop the negotiations.
“No government in Armenia, despite the internal political manipulations, will negotiate with Turkey in this case. There are things that come first,” Bekaryan said.
Bekaryan stressed that the West came to a consensus on the issue. Repeated statements about the necessity of unconditional settlement of Armenian-Turkish relations and OSCE Minsk Group co-chairs’ statement about inadmissibility of Turkey mediation in Nagorno-Karabakh peace process prove it, Bekaryan said. N.V. –0—