April 23, 2009 - 03:55 AMT
Turkey, Armenia agree on road-map to normalize ties
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey issued a joint statement on normalization of relations, the RA MFA press office reported.

The statement says:

" Turkey and Armenia, together with Switzerland as mediator, have been working intensively with a view to normalizing their bilateral relations and developing them in a spirit of good-neighborliness, and mutual respect, and thus to promoting peace, security and stability in the whole region.

The two parties have achieved tangible progress and mutual understanding in this process and they have agreed on a comprehensive framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations in a mutually satisfactory manner. In this context, a road-map has been identified.


This agreed basis provides a positive prospect for the on-going process."