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Politician: Perhaps great powers have promised Armenia to pressure
Turkey into opening Armenian-Turkish border
by Ashot Safaryan
ARMINFO
Tuesday, August 26, 22:32
The visit of the Armenian Foreign Minister to Turkey will not give
any benefits to Armenia but will not have negative consequences
either, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute Sergey Minasyan told
ArmInfo on Tuesday.
He said that by attending the inauguration of Erdogan Nalbandyan is
just trying to comply with diplomatic etiquette. "Of course, if
Armenia refused to attend the ceremony, it would not be isolated from
the region. Simply our authorities decided that they better attend it.
I think the result in both cases would be the same - no result at
all," Minasyan said.
He said that in Ankara Nalbandyan will try to find out if the Turkish
authorities are planning to attend the events commemorating the 100th
year of the Armenian Genocide.
According to Deputy Chairman of Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan,
there may be some backstage talks between Armenia and Turkey, on the
one hand, and Armenia and the great powers interested in better
Armenian-Turkish relations, on the other.
"Since we are not aware if such talks are being held or not, we cannot
say if it is good or not that Armenia is attending the inauguration of
the Turkish President. Perhaps, the reason why Nalbandyan is going to
Ankara is that the great powers have promised Armenia to pressure
Turkey into opening the Armenian-Turkish border," Martirosyan said.
Turkey into opening Armenian-Turkish border
by Ashot Safaryan
ARMINFO
Tuesday, August 26, 22:32
The visit of the Armenian Foreign Minister to Turkey will not give
any benefits to Armenia but will not have negative consequences
either, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute Sergey Minasyan told
ArmInfo on Tuesday.
He said that by attending the inauguration of Erdogan Nalbandyan is
just trying to comply with diplomatic etiquette. "Of course, if
Armenia refused to attend the ceremony, it would not be isolated from
the region. Simply our authorities decided that they better attend it.
I think the result in both cases would be the same - no result at
all," Minasyan said.
He said that in Ankara Nalbandyan will try to find out if the Turkish
authorities are planning to attend the events commemorating the 100th
year of the Armenian Genocide.
According to Deputy Chairman of Heritage Party Armen Martirosyan,
there may be some backstage talks between Armenia and Turkey, on the
one hand, and Armenia and the great powers interested in better
Armenian-Turkish relations, on the other.
"Since we are not aware if such talks are being held or not, we cannot
say if it is good or not that Armenia is attending the inauguration of
the Turkish President. Perhaps, the reason why Nalbandyan is going to
Ankara is that the great powers have promised Armenia to pressure
Turkey into opening the Armenian-Turkish border," Martirosyan said.