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Abdullah Gul, Turkish Foreign Minister, stated that Gul said Armenia should try to resolve its territorial disputes with neighboring Azerbaijan, suggesting that this would help the landlocked country to resolve its problems with Turkey, too. Zaman, Turkish newspaper, reported that Gul made the suggestion at a rare meeting with Vartan Oskanian, RA Foreign Minister, within the framework of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) Summit in Istanbul. Neighbors Turkey and Armenia have no formal ties due to disputes over Yerevan's support for Armenian Diaspora efforts worldwide to win international recognition for the genocide of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire as well as due to the "continuing occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan, by Armenian forces." Turkey also refuses to open its border gate with Armenia, closed "following Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh in the past decade, unless there is an improvement in Armenia's stance."
Oskanian said at the closed-door meeting with Gul that Armenia wanted to improve ties with Turkey and stressed that the reopening of the border would help mend fences, a Turkish diplomat close to the talks said. Gul, however, responded that Armenia should work to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute. "We also expect some gestures from you," the diplomat quoted Gul as saying, in reference to a Turkish proposal to set up a joint committee of Turkish and Armenian academics to study the genocide allegations. At a press conference following his talks with Gul, Oskanian expressed disappointment at the lack of progress. He said unlike leaders of the rest of other member countries of BSEC, Armenian President Robert Kocharian declined to come to Istanbul to attend the 12-nation organization's 15th anniversary summit because there were no diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia.
He noted that Kocharian had come to Turkey when he first came to power in 1998, to attend a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) because he then had high hopes for peace and progress. "Unfortunately there has been no change since then," he told the conference. Oskanian reiterated that Armenia had no precondition for improvement of relations with Turkey but complained that Turkey had clear conditions to take any step in this direction. The Armenian foreign minister criticized Turkish conditions to open the border gate and claimed that they were not "justifiable."
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