The meeting, Mr. Erdogan’s first trip abroad since the Turkish coup attempt last month, signals his willingness to look to Moscow, traditionally the counterweight to Western influence in the Middle East. But Western leaders say Turkey, which is crucial to operations against Islamic State and has the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s second-largest army, will remain a firm ally of the West.
Armenia is Russia’s strategic partner in the Trans-Caucasus region, and we work consistently to develop our alliance in all, even the most sensitive areas, and on the international stage, in particular in the CIS region, where we work together in the CSTO and now in the Eurasian Union too.
During the meeting with RA president Serzh Sargsyan in Moscow RF president Vladimir Putin also reflected to seizure of the Police precinct by “Sasna Tsrer” group. In his words, hostage-taking, recorded in Armenia recently, is an unacceptable experience to solve political issues.
On 8-10 August 2016, Russian president Vladimir Putin will hold a series of meetings with the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey, which are probably aimed at asserting Russian interests around the 28-year dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
“Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to personally express my gratitude to You for the efforts that Russia makes on the political-diplomatic settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. Of course, it is very important the agreements to be implemented. We are ready for that,” the Armenian President said.
“Armenia for us is a strategic partner in the Caucasus and we systematically build our relations of alliance along the most sensitive lines and in the international scene, the CIS space first and foremost,” Putin said during narrow format negotiations with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan on August 10.
“We remain convinced that Turkey has nothing to do in Karabakh settlement process. The only benefit to be recorded from pro-Azerbaijani positioned Turkey, is to keep distance from this settlement as much as possible,” Balayan stated and added, “The official prior to Çavuşoğlu also made an attempt to interfere with the issue, we all know what ending it had.”
Armenia’s conspiratorial though, however, focused on the study of Erdogan’s mimics. As there was nothing else to focus on. As in Armenia they wouldn’t understand or didn’t learn that relations with friendly and hostile countries should be referred to not on the platform of national lamentation or delight, but on policy based on interests.
Judge Kozinski also questioned the reason why these lawsuits were filed 100 years after the fact, prompting Geragos to assert that there was no statute of limitations under FSIA. He further stated that the elapsed time made no difference, since there was an “on-going violation” because Turkey kept these properties and did not turn over the accrued rents to the Armenian owners for decades.
“Putin clarified Russia’s position in Baku. He stated that Russia would like that there were no winners or losers, but a mutually acceptable settlement was recorded. For the time being, I think there are no settlement plans, or, even if they are available, they won’t be discussed on account of moods in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Occurrences in Yerevan also complicate negotiations, as clear calls and claims were heard.”
