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Abdulla Gul responds Serzh Sargsyan

11 February 2010 14:12 (UTC +04:00)

â€œDear friend, I am grateful for your polite message sent during your flight over Turkey. I send greetings to you and Armenian people. I kindly accept thoughts expressed in your messages. I join the idea that our efforts towards the normalization of Turkish-Armenian relations created new hopes for peace in our geography kneaded with the conflicts and fairly caused worldwide interest. Our main goal was to create mutual understanding and trust by lifting the stereotypes existed between our peoples for long years. If similarity between the goals and commitments are protected, please donâ€™t doubt that we are also decisive to move these ideals. I also join the ideal that liable administration requires to keep promises and to make words coinciding with the actions. We will continue our efforts to move the normalization process on the basis of agreement reached between our countries. We need to fulfill our commitments fully and to have enough political courage to complete this historic process. Our common target is the building of future with permanent peace, security, welfare and cooperation for the peoples in our region. I will continue to work on this process looking forward for satisfactory result for our countriesâ€.

Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan sent a letter to Abdulla Gul on February 8, while passing the Turkeyâ€™s air space on his way to the United Kingdom. Sargsyan called on his counterpart to take resolve stance and to make actions towards the normalization of relations between the two countries contributing to the stability in the region.