Saturday, April 15 2017 11:48

ArmInfo.From its side Armenia took all the necessary steps for the normalization of the relations with Turkey, Vardan Toghanyan, Armenian Ambassador to Armenia stated during his interview with Interfax.

He reminded that Armenia was the first initiative of so called Zurich  process, as a result of which transactions were signed on  normalization of relations. "It was a very difficult  process,  supported by our President. Before the assignment of the agreement he  flew to many countries, communicated with the representatives of our  Diaspora in Asia, America and Europe, presented why he found  necessary to normalize the relations. These transactions were signed,  including the cooperation with Russia, USA, European Union. But,  unfortunately Turkey rejected to accomplish its obligations and did  not ratify the transactions. In my opinion, Ankara leads destructive  regional policy, officially supports Azerbaijan's position in  Karabakh conflict, illegally blocs Armenian boundaries as Azerbaijan  does, and coordinates the policy with Baku. Practically, from the  moment of collapse of Soviet Union all the infrastructure, railways,  pipeline are blocked from Turkey and Azerbaijan. Our aim is to  normalize the relations with Turkey was exactly in the transactions  which were signed, but Ankara demonstrated that is not ready for it.  If the policy will go on, we do not see exit. We hope that Turkey  will implement its accepted obligations. From our side we will take  all the necessary steps to normalize the relations", the Diplomat  said.

At the same time, answering the question whether Armenian  contribution to Russian-Georgian relations is real, Toghanyan said  that Yerevan as no one, is interested in improvement of bilateral  relations between Russia and Georgia. "We think that two brother  nations sooner or later should restart the relations in total extent.  Political dialogue is being done currently, the meetings of Georgian  and Russian representatives are being passed in Geneva. He hope these  efforts will have success and will lead to concrete steps to  normalization", the diplomat said.