Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan comments on Mevlut Cavusoglu’s statement
Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Shavarsh Kocharyan has commented on the statement of Mevlut Cavusoglu, the Foreign Minister of Turkey, made in PACE on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
Kocharyan’s comments came to enquire from the “First News Service” of Public TV.
“First and foremost, the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh issue is aimed at the determination of the final status of Nagorno-Karabakh through the legally binding expression of will of the people of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Kocharyan has said, adding: “Another attempt of the Foreign Minister of Turkey to distort the Nagorno-Karabakh negotiation process proves once again what we have been emphasized on numerous occasions that Turkey should be kept away from the settlement process as far as possible”.
Regarding the Turkish Foreign Minister’s statement on the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, Kocharyan has suggested: “if Ankara really wants to normalize relations with Armenia, it would have then ratified and implemented the Armenian-Turkish protocols signed back in 2009 in Zurich”.