NKR OFFICIAL: TURKEY’S ARTSAKH RECOGNITION WOULD PROMOTE CONFLICT SETTLEMENT

PanARMENIAN.Net
March 23, 2012 – 18:31 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net – On March 21, an international scientific-practical
round table entitled “The Turkish Factor in the Middle East and in
the Post-Soviet Space” took place in Moscow, at the Russian Institute
of Strategic Studies (RISS). The event was aimed at the scientific
and practical comprehension of the policy of today’s Turkey in the
Greater Caucasus region and in the territory of the former Soviet
Union in the context of Russia’s national security.

The following topics were discussed at the round table: issues of
international security in a regional context: Turkey and the Greater
Middle East; the domestic factors of instability in the Turkish state;
the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh: Turkey’s position; the prospects
of integration projects in the Caucasus with the participation of the
Russian Federation, Turkey, and other countries in the region; the
religious and public-political influence of Turkey in the post-Soviet
space and in the Turkic-populated regions of Russia.

Over 60 experts and journalists participated in the round-table
discussions; 13 of them delivered reports and many attendants
participated in the discussions.

Leading Russian research institutes and analytic centers were presented
at the forum. On behalf of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, Adviser
to the NKR Minister of Foreign Affairs, Candidate of Historical
Sciences Ruben Zargarian delivered a report titled “Nagorno
Karabakh and Russia in Integration Projects and Turkey’s Position
on the Karabakh Conflict”, which was actively supported by the round
table participants and hosts. In his report, Ruben Zargarian gave an
analysis of the prospects of participation of the NKR and Russia in the
integration projects within the Eastern Mediterranean Neo-Byzantine
Civilization. It was stressed that the successful formation of the
Karabakh Government was one of the systemic factors of stability and
development in the region.

Another topic of Ruben Zargarian’s report was devoted to the
confrontational policy of official Turkey towards the NKR and Armenia.

The speaker noted that it would be more profitable for Turkey to
replace its anti-Karabakh and anti-Armenian stance with the policy
of cooperation with the NKR and Armenia. Noting that some Turkish
political analysts stated that Turkey realized the irreversibility of
the NKR independence, Mr. Zargarian emphasized that as a confidence
measure and goodwill gesture, Turkey could fully recognize the
independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic and establish diplomatic
relations with it, which would contribute to progress in the conflict
settlement issue, NKR Foreign Ministry press service reported.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress