Turkey Should Take Appropriate Move to Normalize Relations with Armenia

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia sets no preconditions for establishment of normal relations with Turkey, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said. "Armenia was ready yesterday, is ready today and will be ready tomorrow to establish neighbor relations with Turkey without preconditions and have open borders with it," the RA FM stated.



"We admit that problems exist but show me two states, especially in Europe, experiencing no historical problems. However no state practises the "instrument of closed borders" to force another state to renounce its history," the Minister said.



In his words, Turkey should take an appropriate move for the normalization of bilateral relations. Vartan Oskanian considers that Turkey doesn't wish to develop bilateral political relations and this excludes any progress. "Turkey is incapable to overcome its narrow-ethnic interests and take a wider approach to the regional problems," Vartan Oskanian considers. According to him, Turkey had the possibility immediately after the USSR collapse and then at the start of the talks with the EU. "In the first case it obviously made a mistake and failed, in the second case the possibility still exists. Anyway it's not late yet to get proper orientation and try to establish normal relations with Armenia," the Armenian FM said, reported Novosti-Armenia.