| June 30— Turkey has used the NATO heads of government summit in Istanbul to reopen a process of dialogue between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
Turkey has organised a series of meetings between Turkish Azeri and Armenian officials on the sidelines of the summit, which wound up on Tuesday, Erdogan told a press conference.
“I held talks with Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan of Armenia during the summit,” Erdogan said. “I also had the chance of bringing Oskanyan and President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan together. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Gul has initiated a process by bringing together foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan.”
Turkey wanted a solution to be found to Azerbaijan-Armenia dispute on the basis of the understanding of win-win, he said.
“However, wishes are not enough at all. The most important thing is to come to a conclusion,” Erdogan said.
The Prime Minister said that the decision taken at Gul’s trilateral meeting on Monday with Foreign Minister Elmar Memmedyarov of Azerbaijan and Armenia’s Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan to continue talks brought the hope that such meetings would contribute to regional stability and the resolution of regional disputes. |
Akgün Medya