April 22, 2009 - 16:38 AMT
Armen Rustamyan: Turkey continues laying preconditions to Armenia
Progress in Armenian-Turkish relations may be seen only if Ankara stops lying preconditions to Yerevan, head of the RA parliamentary committee on foreign relations Armen Rustamyan said during Yerevan-Moscow space bridge titled "Armenia-Turkey: real progress in bilateral relations of geopolitical games of superpowers."

According to parliamentarian, it seemed that after the events in Georgia Ankara decided to renounce preconditions in dialogue with Armenia. "Therefore, Armenia initiated talks. But recent statements by Turkish officials show that Armenians were wrong in their conclusions," he said.

Armen Rustamyan said that no progress will be seen in Turkish-Armenian relations unless Turkey stops its policy of preconditions.