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Armenia not opposed to appearance of Turkish capital at its market
YEREVAN, November 16. / ARKA /. Armenia is not opposed to appearance
of Turkish capital at its market, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said today as
met with members of the Club of Chief Editors from the Commonwealth of
Independent States, Baltic countries and Georgia.
He said Armenia is interested in investments. Experience has proven
that investors are very rational people, he said answering ARKA News
Agency's question, and that is why Armenian and Turkish businessmen
effectively cooperate, while the two countries authorities fain to
engage in a political dialogue.
Sargsyan said that the state ought to remove political obstacles to
let people trade with each other, make investments and develop
economic ties.
`Both Armenia and Turkey will take advantage of this,' he added.
There are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey. The
border between the two countries was closed in 1993 at Ankara's
initiative.
Relations between Armenia and Turkey remain tense because of Ankara's
biased stance on Karabakh problem and its painful reaction to
Armenia's efforts to obtain worldwide recognition of the fact of
Armenian Genocide.
Thaw in Armenian-Turkish relations began in 2008 on Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan's initiative.
On October 10, Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers signed the
protocols on establishment of diplomatic ties between the two
countries and development of bilateral relations. The protocols had to
be ratified by the two countries' parliaments, but on April 22, 2010,
the Armenian president, seeing that Turkey was dragging its feet,
signed a decree ceasing the process of ratification. He said Turkey
was not ready to continue the process. The ratification process
remains frozen. -0-
YEREVAN, November 16. / ARKA /. Armenia is not opposed to appearance
of Turkish capital at its market, Armenian Prime Minister Tigran
Sargsyan said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan said today as
met with members of the Club of Chief Editors from the Commonwealth of
Independent States, Baltic countries and Georgia.
He said Armenia is interested in investments. Experience has proven
that investors are very rational people, he said answering ARKA News
Agency's question, and that is why Armenian and Turkish businessmen
effectively cooperate, while the two countries authorities fain to
engage in a political dialogue.
Sargsyan said that the state ought to remove political obstacles to
let people trade with each other, make investments and develop
economic ties.
`Both Armenia and Turkey will take advantage of this,' he added.
There are no diplomatic relations between Armenia and Turkey. The
border between the two countries was closed in 1993 at Ankara's
initiative.
Relations between Armenia and Turkey remain tense because of Ankara's
biased stance on Karabakh problem and its painful reaction to
Armenia's efforts to obtain worldwide recognition of the fact of
Armenian Genocide.
Thaw in Armenian-Turkish relations began in 2008 on Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan's initiative.
On October 10, Armenian and Turkish foreign ministers signed the
protocols on establishment of diplomatic ties between the two
countries and development of bilateral relations. The protocols had to
be ratified by the two countries' parliaments, but on April 22, 2010,
the Armenian president, seeing that Turkey was dragging its feet,
signed a decree ceasing the process of ratification. He said Turkey
was not ready to continue the process. The ratification process
remains frozen. -0-