Hurriyet, Turkey
June 14 2012

Armenian Foreign Minister accuses Turkey
YEREVAN

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian accused Turkey for not
being neutral in the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, Armenian media reports
said yesterday.

`20 years ago when Armenia was not against Turkish participation in
the Minsk Group some countries hoped that Turkey would be objective
and will assist settling the Nagorno Karabakh issue. But as the 20
years showed Turkey is not objective and also damaged the
Nagorno-Karabakh issue’s settlement process, ‘ Times.am news website
cited Nalbandyan as saying. Speaking at recent clashes along the
border with Azerbaijan where the lives of soldiers from both sides
were claimed, Nalbandian accused Turkey of `making racist statements.’

`[A] Turkish announcement [that] accorded they are troubled with the
Azerbaijani victims has racist character. We have never heard from
them to be troubled with the Armenian victims which Azerbaijani
provocation causes,’ said Nalbandyan speaking at a at a joint press
conference with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe’s (OSCE) Chairman-in-Office Eamon Gilmore on June 12. `When the
international society condemns the bloody events and calls on a stop
of the use of force Turkish announcements cause new provocations by
Azerbaijan,’ he said. Turkey and Armenia currently have no diplomatic
relations, as Ankara closed its border with the country in 1993
because of its war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.
June/14/2012

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress