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Ahmet Davutoglu: â€œThere cannot be healthy normalization between Turkey and Armenia without solution of Nagorno Karabakh problemâ€

23 December 2009 14:58 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. â€œThe realization of the protocols signed with Armenia is a process and everyone should think positively about such processes. Negative scenarios are not useful for anyone. No one is interested in returning to the situation before the protocolsâ€, said the Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, reacting to the Armeniaâ€™s statement that it will reject the protocols if Ankara delays their ratification, APA reports quoting Hurriyyet newspaper. In his opinion, positive scenario is realization of the protocols and normalization in whole Caucasus. â€œThe bilateral normalization links with the improvement of situation in the Caucasus. There is a problem standing for 17 years. There cannot be bilateral healthy normalization without solution of this problem. Our intention is to establish peace and stability in whole Caucasus. Turkey-Armenia borders are closed for 20 years, but we try again to solve this problem. If there is a good will in another issue, it can reach certain phase in this issue too. Minsk process reached serious progresses. We all together moved this process to the certain phase. The talks in Athens were also positiveâ€.

Davutoglu said he was seeing Turkey-Armenia relations not from the factor of time, but from a large horizon. â€œI donâ€™t see this process negatively. We cannot squeeze time. We shouldnâ€™t leave the future of our countries and peoples to the hand of lobbiesâ€.