Turkey is a full NATO member and it agreed for the Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) with Armenia, Special Representative of the NATO Secretary General for the South Caucasus Robert Simmons stated at a news conference in Yerevan. In his words, the NATO is not going to solve political problems between countries, which are both Alliance members and those involved in partnership programs. «Armenia and Turkey should settle issues of normalization of relations and opening the Armenian-Turkish border themselves,» he emphasized.