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Armenia and Turkey not preparing to make first move - American analyst
news.am
December 01, 2012 | 21:59
Armenia and Turkey are not preparing to make the first move in terms
of constructing diplomatic infrastructures, Wayne Merry, Senior
Associate at the American Foreign Policy Council, told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
`The governments [of both countries] know better what they are
preparing to do but, judging from the developments we are becoming
eyewitnesses to, they are not preparing to do anything [at present],
even if making the first move is very easy and this could be the
opening - in one another's capital cities, or in third countries - of
sections that represent the interests of the other party,' Merry
noted.
To the query as to whether the governments of Armenia and Turkey are
afraid that in the case of making the first move they could lose their
standing in their own countries, Wayne Merry responded: `They know
better. But if the US could have such section in Cuba, I see no reason
why Armenia and Turkey likewise cannot do the same. Perhaps it is
because they just don't want that.'
news.am
December 01, 2012 | 21:59
Armenia and Turkey are not preparing to make the first move in terms
of constructing diplomatic infrastructures, Wayne Merry, Senior
Associate at the American Foreign Policy Council, told Armenian
News-NEWS.am.
`The governments [of both countries] know better what they are
preparing to do but, judging from the developments we are becoming
eyewitnesses to, they are not preparing to do anything [at present],
even if making the first move is very easy and this could be the
opening - in one another's capital cities, or in third countries - of
sections that represent the interests of the other party,' Merry
noted.
To the query as to whether the governments of Armenia and Turkey are
afraid that in the case of making the first move they could lose their
standing in their own countries, Wayne Merry responded: `They know
better. But if the US could have such section in Cuba, I see no reason
why Armenia and Turkey likewise cannot do the same. Perhaps it is
because they just don't want that.'