May 22, 2008 - 15:59 AMT
Armenia-Turkey relations activated in 2007
Caucasus 2007 international conference kicked off in Yerevan today. The conference will focus on the events taking place in the South Caucasus.

"The participants are free to discuss the events that took place last year, the most important of them being the elections in Georgia and Armenia. Efforts for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict settlement were continued. Some kind of dynamics was observed in the Armenia-Turkey informal relations. However, the meetings and discussions can't ensure a breakthrough in the near future," said Alexander Iskandaryan, director of Caucasus Institute.

The possibility of normalization of relations between the two states is strong enough but Armenian and Turkish diplomacies have a great deal of work to do, according to him.