Putin says no link between Garabagh and Turkey-Armenia ties
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said linking the
Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict over Upper Garabagh and the issue of
normalizing Turkey-Armenia relations is inappropriate.
Putin made the statement at a news conference after hosting his
Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday, adding that
Russia was ready to facilitate the solution of both issues.
"If we take into account that the Upper Garabagh and Turkey-Armenia
problems are complicated issues as they are, I don’t think it would
be right to combine them into the same package," he said.
The Russian prime minister said solving either problem separately
is already a daunting task. "If we put everything together, the
prospect of solving the issue will automatically become very
distant."
Putin added that linking Garabagh settlement with Ankara-Yerevan
normalization would be unsuitable "from the tactical and strategic
viewpoints."
Azerbaijan and Armenia have been locked in conflict for nearly two
decades. Russia co-chairs the OSCE Minsk Group brokering the peace
process, along with the United States and France.*
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