Ankara welcomes Astrakhan deal on Karabakh talks
Turkish Foreign Ministry delivered a statement to welcome the results of a trilateral meeting hosted last week by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, at which the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on certain humanitarian issues related to the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute, a territorial dispute between Baku and Yerevan.
“Turkey hopes that the Astrahan summit will make a positive contribution to the resolution process via accelerating efforts for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute; within this framework, it hopes that steps to be taken in humanitarian field will be supported and strengthened via similar measures to be improved in other fields,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement released on Sunday.