NOTHING WILL CHANGE "OVERNIGHT" AS A RESULT MEDVEDEV’S VISIT TO TURKEY, POLITICAL SCIENTISTS SAY
Liana Yeghiazaryan
"Radiolur"
13.05.2010 15:11
Nothing will change "overnight" as a result of Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Turkey. It will not have much influence on
the Armenian-Turkish relations, political scientists Yervand Bozoyan
and Alexander Manasyan told a press conference today. They agree also
that the Russian-Turkish relations have entered a new strategic stage.
According to Yervand Bozoyan, Turkey has minimal and maximal
expectations from Russia. The minimum it wants is to participate in the
discussions on Nagorno Karabakh, and Armenian political scientists see
danger here. On a more global scale, Turkey wants Russia to pressure
Armenia on Karabakh issue.
The Russian-Turkish relations have entered a strategic stage, but
Russia is trying not to harm its strategic partnership with Armenia.
"Such development of Russian-Turkish relations will not result
in dangerous processes for us, if we do not to harm ourselves. In
particular, I mean the football diplomacy," Yervand Bozoyan said.
Alexander Manasyan says that "although the Russian-Turkish relations
are mostly of economic nature, the political interests are obvious.
Those are primarily related to the transit of energy through Russian
territory, where the interests of the two countries overlap."
"We must speak about our political interests rather than economic ones,
since Armenia can hardly participate in the economic projects Russia
and Turkey are involved in. As regards the political interests, since
Russia and Turkey are strategic partners like Russia and Armenia, it
turns out that Turkey and Armenia also become strategic partners," he
added. However, this is not true in reality, Manasyan says, adding that
Armenia’s real interested here is to get more real security guarantees.
The political scientists say that linking the Armenia-Turkish and
the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations to each other complicates the
solution of both. Therefore, Armenia is interested in solving the
two issues separately.