Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu hopes Armenia will participate within the normalisation course of in direction of peace and regrets backward steps in direction of negotiations.
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Türkiye and Azerbaijan are “sincere” of their efforts to normalise relations with Armenia, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has stated.
“I can easily say this on behalf of brotherly Azerbaijan. Türkiye and Azerbaijan are sincere about normalisation,” Cavusoglu informed at an occasion on Wednesday the place he met members of the Turkish American neighborhood in Washington, DC.
In his remarks on the Turkish Embassy residence, Cavusoglu recalled that Ankara has shaped numerous 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 stated.
Cavusoglu stated that in his assembly together with his US counterpart Antony Blinken, the highest American diplomat informed him that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was additionally “sincere” in regards to the normalisation course of.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is because of meet US counterpart Antony Blinken in Washington.
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Actions ought to communicate
“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 Karabakh, a territory internationally recognised 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 stated to have ignited due to protests by Azerbaijani environmental activists within the Lachin area over what they are saying is illegitimate exploitation of pure assets by Armenia in Karabakh.
Armenia has known as on Russian peacekeepers deployed to watch the peace deal to unblock the Lachin hall, the lifeline highway connecting Karabakh to Armenia.
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