BAKU: Turkey ‘Should Not Link Armenia Thaw To Karabakh’

TURKEY ‘SHOULD NOT LINK ARMENIA THAW TO KARABAKH’

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May 20 2009
Azerbaijan

Turkey should not link its efforts to normalise ties with Armenia to
a settlement between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh,
a French negotiator said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

"Normalisation of Turkish-Armenian relations and the settlement of
the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute are two separate processes which should
continue in parallel but along their own paths," the French Embassy
in Ankara said in a statement after a visit earlier this week by
Bernard Fassier, a co-chairman of the Minsk Group.