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Interfax, Russia
Dec 15 2013
Turkey, Azerbaijan cannot obtain unilateral concessions on Karabakh
from Armenia - Armenian president
YEREVAN. Jan 15
Turkey and Azerbaijan will be unable to obtain unilateral concessions
on Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, despite Armenia's continuing
blockade, says Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"We should not forget that there is a state in the region that
unconditionally supports Baku's anti-Armenian policy. The
Turkish-Azeri tandem based on the 'one nation, two states' motto has
been trying for twenty years to wriggle unilateral concessions on
Karabakh from Armenia by way of a blockade, the deepening of the
dividing lines and noncooperation. They have been unsuccessful and
will never be successful in this," Sargsyan said at an expanded
meeting at the Defense Ministry attended by top-ranking officials from
the legislative, executive and judicial branches on Tuesday.
Sargsyan insisted that Ankara's declared 'zero problems with
neighbors' policy has achieved "a zero result," the presidential press
service told Interfax.
"The reason is that Turkey is trying to resolve all its problems with
the neighbors at the neighbors' expense. Turkey is a rapidly
developing and progressing country today, but this process will never
be full, and its dramatic end is predictable unless the Turkish
authorities seriously reconsider their attitude toward their state's
and people's history," he said.
The recognition and denunciation of the Armenian Genocide is "Turkey's
debt to the genocide's victims, their descendants, humankind and the
Turkish people," he said.
"The Turkish people are gradually questioning the decades-long
government propaganda regarding the Armenian Genocide. For Armenia,
the recognition of the genocide is not only a demand for justice and
fairness, but it also has significance from the security standpoint. I
believe that, without Turkey's sincere remorse and elimination of the
genocide's consequences, Armenia's secure existence in the region will
remain under threat," he said.
Realizing the importance of forming an atmosphere of confidence in the
region, Armenia initiated normalization of its relations with Turkey,
he said.
"However, everyone knows the fate of this initiative and in what
circumstances Turkey refused to honor the obligations it undertook by
keeping closed the last closed border in Europe," Sargsyan said.
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Dec 15 2013
Turkey, Azerbaijan cannot obtain unilateral concessions on Karabakh
from Armenia - Armenian president
YEREVAN. Jan 15
Turkey and Azerbaijan will be unable to obtain unilateral concessions
on Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenia, despite Armenia's continuing
blockade, says Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
"We should not forget that there is a state in the region that
unconditionally supports Baku's anti-Armenian policy. The
Turkish-Azeri tandem based on the 'one nation, two states' motto has
been trying for twenty years to wriggle unilateral concessions on
Karabakh from Armenia by way of a blockade, the deepening of the
dividing lines and noncooperation. They have been unsuccessful and
will never be successful in this," Sargsyan said at an expanded
meeting at the Defense Ministry attended by top-ranking officials from
the legislative, executive and judicial branches on Tuesday.
Sargsyan insisted that Ankara's declared 'zero problems with
neighbors' policy has achieved "a zero result," the presidential press
service told Interfax.
"The reason is that Turkey is trying to resolve all its problems with
the neighbors at the neighbors' expense. Turkey is a rapidly
developing and progressing country today, but this process will never
be full, and its dramatic end is predictable unless the Turkish
authorities seriously reconsider their attitude toward their state's
and people's history," he said.
The recognition and denunciation of the Armenian Genocide is "Turkey's
debt to the genocide's victims, their descendants, humankind and the
Turkish people," he said.
"The Turkish people are gradually questioning the decades-long
government propaganda regarding the Armenian Genocide. For Armenia,
the recognition of the genocide is not only a demand for justice and
fairness, but it also has significance from the security standpoint. I
believe that, without Turkey's sincere remorse and elimination of the
genocide's consequences, Armenia's secure existence in the region will
remain under threat," he said.
Realizing the importance of forming an atmosphere of confidence in the
region, Armenia initiated normalization of its relations with Turkey,
he said.
"However, everyone knows the fate of this initiative and in what
circumstances Turkey refused to honor the obligations it undertook by
keeping closed the last closed border in Europe," Sargsyan said.
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