“After the April clashes, we need compromise and proposals more than before. We want the conflict settled in a constructive way. To settle the conflict, we have to use the presidents’ opportunities to meet, and hold serious discussions for restoration and maintenance of the ceasefire,” he said.
In his letter, Erdogan called Russia “a friend and a strategic partner” of Ankara, with whom the Turkish authorities would not want to spoil relations. “We never had a desire or a deliberate intention to down an aircraft belonging to Russia,” the letter read, according to a statement published on the Kremlin website. According to the statement, Erdogan’s letter stressed that “the Turkish side undertook all the risks and made a great effort to recover the body of the Russian pilot from the Syrian opposition, bringing it to Turkey.
Official Ankara considered unacceptable the Pope’s statements. In particular, the Turkish MFA’s announcement says the visit to the Armenian Genocide Memorial, the statements on the Genocide, the joint statement with Catholicos of All Armenians once again show “Pope Francis’ unconditional commitment to the Armenian stories which do not correspond with the 1915 historical realities.”
In his words planning of a military training “is an attempt to show power.” “To some extent this is also manifestation of blackmail to the international community. It’s incomprehensible why both military trainings and Formula 1 are being launched there. Probably this is also an attempt to attach the attention of more people and introduce Azerbaijan as a powerful state,” the spokesman said.
Turkish city of Tuzluca in Igdir Province has demounted the Armenian signboards reading “Welcome” and “Good bye” at the entry and exit of the city.
“First and foremost, EEU is an economic organization, we shouldn’t politicize our economic integration, as any politicization will lead to economic integrating issues, and EEU won’t provide the outcome we anticipate to have.”
“Unfortunately, such conflicts are never settled at the wish of one party. We would be glad if we managed to make progress today towards the implementation of the agreements that we have achieved, in other words, to create mechanisms of investigating ceasefire violations. This would create a good working climate for talks,” Sargsyan said.
Military trainings will be launched in the bordering units, Nakhchivan and Azerbaijani part of the Caspian Sea. Artsrun Hovhannisyan said there is no need to worry. “We will thoroughly touch upon it. We follow all the steps by Azerbaijan. I don’t see any reason to worry,” he said.
“I am impatiently waiting for this meeting. We hope the sides will sum up the OSCE agreement on implementing investigative mechanisms and will restore talks for comprehensive peace agreement,” he said.
“We are convinced, that all those crisis situations would be more easily settled in case of overcoming systemic shortcomings in the field of pan-European cooperation, annulation of maintained dividing line,” he said, calling to initiate a common economic and humanitarian domain, which will stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be based on equal and inseparable security architecture.
