RUSSIA’S MFA COMMENTS ON ARMENIAN AND RUSSIAN PRESIDENTS’ JOINT TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH TURKISH COUNTERPART
news.am, Armenia
Oct 28 2011
Russian MFA advises not to transfer to the Armenia-Turkey relations’
normalization mediation platform the Russian and Armenian presidents’
telephone conversation, from Moscow, with the Turkish president.
Within the framework of his state visit to Russia, between October 23
and 25, Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan, together with his Russian
colleague Dmitry Medvedev, had a joint telephone conversation with
Turkey’s President, Abdullah Gul, and expressed his condolences over
the earthquake in Turkey.
In response to the question as to whether this telephone conversation
can be considered Russia’s attempt at mediation in the normalization
of Armenian-Turkish relations, Russian MFA’s official representative,
Alexander Lukashevich, stated that during the call Medvedev and
Sargsyan expressed condolences to the Turkish president for the
terrible natural disaster and offered their assistance to the Turkish
people.
“I would not transfer that to the Armenia-Turkey relations’
normalization mediation platform,” Lukashevich noted.
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