Türkiye and Azerbaijan are “sincere” of their efforts to normalize relations with Armenia, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu mentioned Wednesday.
“I can easily say this on behalf of brotherly Azerbaijan. Türkiye and Azerbaijan are sincere about normalization,” Çavuşoğlu advised an occasion the place he met members of the Turkish American group in Washington, D.C.
In his remarks on the Turkish Embassy residence, Çavuşoğlu recalled that Ankara has shaped varied mechanisms with Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Georgia on the East-West Middle Corridor.
“I hope Armenia will take part in this process, it will take sincere steps towards peace. Recently, unfortunately, we have seen backward steps towards negotiations,” he mentioned.
Çavuşoğlu mentioned that in his assembly along with his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken, the highest American diplomat advised him that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was additionally “sincere” concerning the normalization course of.
“But we want to see this through action, not words,” he added.
Relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan had been tense since 1991, when the Armenian navy occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, a territory internationally acknowledged as a part of Azerbaijan, and 7 adjoining areas.
In the autumn of 2020, throughout 44 days of heavy preventing, Azerbaijan liberated a big a part of Karabakh and a Russian-brokered peace settlement was subsequently signed, thought-about a triumph in Baku.
Recent tensions are mentioned to have ignited due to protests by Azerbaijani environmental activists within the Lachin area over what they are saying is against the law exploitation of pure sources by Armenia in Karabakh.
Armenia has referred to as on Russian peacekeepers deployed to watch the peace deal to unblock the Lachin hall, the lifeline highway connecting Karabakh to Armenia.
