Karabakh conflict can not be stability in the Caucasus – Turkish Foreign Minister: No solution to the Nagorno
December 31, 2009 – 11:51 pm
“for stability in the Caucasus is not enough to normalize relations between Turkey and Armenia. If Armenia, for its part will not solve the problems generated by the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the establishment of stability in the region impossible. It is obvious, “- said Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Özügergin Turkey on a weekly press conference in Ankara on Wednesday.
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia appeared in 1988 when he was their republics of the USSR, due to territorial claims by Armenia against Azerbaijan. 20 percent of the territory of Azerbaijan, including Nagorno-Karabakh and 7 surrounding districts, are now under occupation by Armenian Armed Forces. In May 1994 the parties reached a cease-fire and is still under the auspices of the OSCE Minsk Group and co-chaired by Russia, France and the United States are currently holding peaceful negotiations.
October 10, 2009 , the Foreign Minister of Armenia and Turkey signed a protocol in Zurich on the normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey. The diplomatic relations between the two countries were severed in 1993.
The reasons for breaking of diplomatic relations and closing of the Turkish-Armenian border in 1993 were deployed Yerevan anti Turkish campaign related to the claims of the Armenian side on the recognition of both called “genocide”, the Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territory and the territorial claims of the Armenian side to the Turkish Anatolia.
