Sergei Lavrov: “Russia is ready to support the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations with the infrastructure projects”
Russia is interested in the soonest ratification of Armenia-Turkey protocols, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who is visiting Armenia, said at the press conference with his Armenian counterpart Edward Nalbandian, APA reports quoting Novosti-Armenia.
16:17 / 14.01.2010 According to Sergei Lavrov, the sooner Armenia-Turkey relations are normalized, the better it is for the region. Mentioning that he participated in the ceremony of signing of the protocols in Zurich Sergei Lavrov said Russia was ready to support the normalization process with the infrastructure projects (especially in the railway).
“We are ready to help, if the sides are ready,” he said.
Nalbandian said Armenia was doing its best to ratify the protocols in a short time. According to Nalbandian, the ratification procedure was more complicated in Armenia than in Turkey, because the opinion of the Constitutional Court was required first.
“The fact showing that Armenia is decisive in ratifying these documents, is that the Constitutional Court passed a decision within a day, whereas the discussions might delay. But the Turkish parliament received the protocols in October. I do not want to think that Turkey delays the protocols. I want to believe that Turkey will not delay the ratification,” he said.Bu yazı ( 433 ) - dəfə oxunmuşdur
