Armenia to continue the dialogue with Turkey, Armenian Foreign Minister said

with Turkey aimed at reaching a considerable progress in bilateral

relations, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in Yerevan today.

Vartan Oskanian noted that despite the harsh-worded statements made by

Ankara representatives from time to time, the Armenian-Turkish relations

were considered by Turkey less dependent on the settlement of the

Nagorno Karabakh conflict in 2003 than it was before, Mediamax reports.

Armenian Foreign Minister said that in 2003 Armenia and Turkey carried

on a dialogue not only on the level of Foreign Ministers of the two

countries but also within the framework of international organizations,

especially UNESCO, the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Black Sea

Economic Cooperation Organization (BSEC).

“My meetings with Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul held last year

let us state that our dialogue is not over and we can achieve positive

results in case a consecutive work is done,” Vartan Oskanian said.

Commenting on the possible trilateral meeting of Armenian, Turkish and

Azeri Foreign Ministers, Vartan Oskanian said that Yerevan had not

received such an offer yet. The Minister reminded that Armenia had

already taken part in two such meetings and did not rule out the

possibility of holding a new one in case if during the talks Turkey does

not act as a mediator between Armenian and Azerbaijan.