Question. Turkish Prime-Minister stated, that till Nagorno Karabakh question is not solved, Armenian-Turkish border will not open, and made some insulting remarks on Armenian Diaspora. What would be your comment?    

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Answer. Turkish side is informed, and we are confident that they realize, that we exclude the conditioning of the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations by the steps towards the settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict.

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Trying to link those two processes, could ruin one and another. Number of countries, including the Minsk Group Co-Chairs  countries have expressed the same position. They stated repeatedly that the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations must be without preconditions. 

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With this mutual understanding we have started and conducted negotiations and came to agreements, reflected in the initialed protocols. 

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If Turkish authorities have problems with the signing of documents, they should not try to solve them by distorting the spirit, essence and goals of the initialed documents. 

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The signing and implementation of agreed documents is a difficult process. Nevertheless, Armenia is ready to respect the agreements and go forward. 

\n If the authorities of current Turkey are not ready today to recognize the fact of the Genocide perpetrated in Ottoman Empire, they are at least obliged to respect the survivors of the Armenian Genocide and their descendants.