WE SHOULD NOT EXPECT MUCH, AS THE PRESENT PROBLEMS HAVE A VERY LONG STORY

On September 26 in New York took place the trilateral meeting of Foreign Ministers of Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan. Seemingly, the most important achievement of that meeting was the decision was to continue dialog between the aforementioned states in that format. The meeting caused much consideration in international press, and the response was positive for the most part.
Before referring to the comments, it should be mentioned that the trilateral meeting was preceded by another meeting of Edward Nalbandian and Ali Babacan, which lasted for about 40 minutes.
In a joint press conference after the meeting of the three Foreign Ministers Ali Babacan said that Caucasus has great capacities. "if peace and stability in Caucasus are achieved, great things can be done. It is also important in sense of geopolitical location of the region. Today we discussed the opportunity of establishing the Caucasian Stability and Partnership Platform, as well as issues peculiar to the region."
The Armenian Foreign Minister thanked his Turkish colleague for arranging the meeting and appreciated Turkey's initiative about the Platform. He said that the Armenian and Turkish discussed opportunities of full normalization of the relationships between the two countries and exchanged opinions.
Mamedyarov said that taking into consideration all the risks and problems in Caucasus, the meeting of the Armenian Turkish and Azerbaijani Foreign Ministers was very important.
On the same day Ali Babacan gave a live interview to CNN-Turk. He said that the dialogue between Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan shall continue in the trilateral format and said that diplomatic contacts between Armenia and Turkey, which started almost a year ago, shall develop. Referring to the issues of opening the Armenian-Turkish border and of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Foreign Minister said, "We should not expect much, as the present problems have a very long story, some of them were originated in the times of World War 1. We will proceed at a slow pace. We have a plenty of problems to consider".
We would like to add that Turkey removed any restrictions from its airspace for flights to and from Yerevan. The Embassies of Turkey received permission to attend receptions organized by the Armenian Embassies around the world.
By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.

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