Turkish expert on possible Turkey-Russia-Armenia meeting on Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

"Negotiations between Prime Ministers of Russia and Turkey Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on the issue of Nagorno-Karabakh is still possible,” Director of the Turkey-based Center for International Relations and Strategic Analysis (TURKSAM) Sinan Ogan said.

"At present, preparations for this meeting are underway. But they have not been able yet to persuade Serzh Sargsyan to participate in this meeting,” he said.

“In recent days, Sargsyan has made sharper statements and threats. It is no accidental. Sargsyan does not want to attend this meeting, because in this case Turkey’s linkage of the Karabakh conflict settlement with will become more visible. In this regard, Ankara has put pressure on Moscow and, Moscow, in turn, on Yerevan," the TURKSAM Director explained.

"I never said that the meeting will certainly be held. Besides, this is a diplomatic process. It is likely to take place. But lately, Sargsyan has been trying to stall this process by harsh statements because Armenia wants world parliaments to take decisions against Turkey until 2015, one hundred years after the resettlement of Armenians," Ogan noted.

According to the Turkish expert, if the Karabakh conflict is resolved, Armenian-Turkish border will reopen.

"If this happens, the century-old strategy of Armenia will be failure and the parliaments of Western countries will no longer adopt bills on the far-fetched "Armenian genocide "against Turkey. Armenia does not want this happen. For this reason, it does not want to any serious steps towards resolving the Karabakh conflict till 2015,” Ogan pointed out.


/Day.Az/