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    TURKEY CHANGES ITS POLICY TOWARDS AZERBAIJANI-KARABAKH CONFLICT

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    19.01.2010 17:44 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The recent Erdogan-Medvedev meeting in Moscow changes
    Turkey's foreign policy towards Karabakh conflict settlement, leader
    of Democartic Party Aram Sargsyan finds.

    "Before the meeting, Turkey claimed for final conflict settlement in
    return for border opening. Currently, it speaks about certain progress,
    which implies signing of a trilateral declaration between Armenian,
    Azeri and Russian presidents," he told a news conference in Yerevan,
    adding that such document will reiterate Mainedorf declaration.

    "To achieve conflict settlement, it is first of all necessary for
    Karabakh to become direct party to peace talks. Thereafter, the country
    has to reject the Madrid Principles which are unacceptable to us,"
    Democratic Party leader said.

    The Democratic Party of Armenia is a political force established in
    1991. Its founder and leader is Aram Sargsyan, formerly advisor to RA
    President Robert Kocharyan (1998-99) and member of Armenia's National
    Assembly (203-2007).

    The party's ideology is based upon the doctrine of democratic
    socialism. It acts in support of maintenance of democratic and national
    values and establishment of social justice.

    The protocols aimed at normalization of bilateral ties and opening of
    the border between Armenia and Turkey were signed in Zurich by Armenian
    Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet
    Davutoglu on October 10, 2009, after a series of diplomatic talks
    held through Swiss mediation.

    On January 12, 2010, the Constitutional Court of the Republic of
    Armenia found the protocols conformable to the country's Organic Law.

    The Karabakh-Azerbaijani conflict broke out in 1988 as result of the
    ethnic cleansing launched by Azerbaijan in the final years of the
    Soviet Union. The Karabakh War was fought from 1991 to 1994. Since
    the ceasefire in 1994, most of Nagorno Karabakh and several regions
    of Azerbaijan around it (the security zone) remain under the control
    of Nagorno Karabakh defense army. Armenia and Azerbaijan have since
    been holding peace talks mediated by the OSCE Minsk Group.

    The Madrid document contains the proposals put forward by the OSCE
    Minsk Group co-chairs on the basic principles of a settlement. The
    document was presented to the Armenian and Azerbaijani representatives
    at the OSCE summit in the Spanish capital in November 2007.
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