Georgy Petrosyan: Turkey is a hostage to its own promises to Azerbaijan
Armenians and Turkey have many problems and complicated knots, which affect today our daily lives, the NKR Foreign Minister Georgy Petrosyan said.
"I wish the process of approach was not a matter of gambling but serious negotiations and meetings also were held between people of two countries, in order to make our positions clear-cut and precise and to come to mutual understanding.
These tangled points on the whole relate not only to Armenians and the Armenian world. In connection with the Karabakh events, I can say that it was in the period of the modern history that Karabakhi people raised a political question. Since 1988, in fact on the threshold of dissolution of the USSR, we have witnessed certain events in the territory of Azerbaijan in connection with the Armenian population: of course passions have been fanned again, wounds opened, and if it was not a preparatory step to commit genocide, then what was that? Today there are different comments concerning those issues: official, humanitarian, etc. These are the questions that seriously influence human memories, future policy and possibilities to establish good-neighborly relations. It's evident that nobody will leave this territory. Common edges must be found in this territory which must be based on human rights, as well as on the right of people in general. This is the most significant thing.
In addition, in the present situation we see that Turkey's high-ranking officials directly try to connect these two issues together: Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the problem of Armenian-Turkish relations. It does not contribute to the settlement of the problem, as Turkey has obviously become the hostage of his promises given to Azerbaijan in due course, and this very directly and clearly shows that Azerbaijan exerts pressure. Willy-nilly Turkey becomes a concerned party once again insisting, that without this, this and that, it is impossible to achieve any positive result. This is also perceived as a means of pressure; however any display of pressure can hardly ensure positive results.
I think these days set the beginning of the future, when Karabakhi officials will have an opportunity to get in touch not only with journalists, but also with the politicians of different countries. Restrained and calm political dialogues and discussions will be very productive," Georgy Petrosyan said.
"I wish the process of approach was not a matter of gambling but serious negotiations and meetings also were held between people of two countries, in order to make our positions clear-cut and precise and to come to mutual understanding.
These tangled points on the whole relate not only to Armenians and the Armenian world. In connection with the Karabakh events, I can say that it was in the period of the modern history that Karabakhi people raised a political question. Since 1988, in fact on the threshold of dissolution of the USSR, we have witnessed certain events in the territory of Azerbaijan in connection with the Armenian population: of course passions have been fanned again, wounds opened, and if it was not a preparatory step to commit genocide, then what was that? Today there are different comments concerning those issues: official, humanitarian, etc. These are the questions that seriously influence human memories, future policy and possibilities to establish good-neighborly relations. It's evident that nobody will leave this territory. Common edges must be found in this territory which must be based on human rights, as well as on the right of people in general. This is the most significant thing.
In addition, in the present situation we see that Turkey's high-ranking officials directly try to connect these two issues together: Nagorno-Karabakh problem and the problem of Armenian-Turkish relations. It does not contribute to the settlement of the problem, as Turkey has obviously become the hostage of his promises given to Azerbaijan in due course, and this very directly and clearly shows that Azerbaijan exerts pressure. Willy-nilly Turkey becomes a concerned party once again insisting, that without this, this and that, it is impossible to achieve any positive result. This is also perceived as a means of pressure; however any display of pressure can hardly ensure positive results.
I think these days set the beginning of the future, when Karabakhi officials will have an opportunity to get in touch not only with journalists, but also with the politicians of different countries. Restrained and calm political dialogues and discussions will be very productive," Georgy Petrosyan said.
