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 ANKARA
(Trend)—Turkey’s Ambassador to the US, Nabi Sensoy, Friday
signaled his government’s intentions to influence the
Nagorno-Karabakh peace talks through its ongoing process to
normalize relations with Armenia, the Azeri Trend News Agency
reported.
Turkey and Armenia signed agreements on
October 10 calling for the opening of borders and the
normalization of relations between the two countries. The
agreements cannot go into effect until the parliaments of both
countries ratifies them. Turkey has held up the process in its
National Assembly, demanding that the Karabakh conflict be
resolved in Azerbaijan’s favor before relations with Armenia can
be normalized.
“Turkey will continue its efforts aimed at
active encouragement of the final solution of the [Karabakh]
conflict,” Sensoy said in an interview with Trend.
“We think that this will prove useful not
only to the bilateral relationship between Turkey and Armenia,
but also in terms of making positive contributions to the peace,
stability and security in the South Caucasus, especially in the
region rife with ‘frozen’ problems,” Sensoy said.
He said Ankara believes that the protocols,
which extract major concessions from Armenia in terms of
economic, political and legal rights, are channeling
Armenia-Turkey relations in a new “extremely beneficial”
direction.
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