Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan gave an interview to the CNN on Wednesday evening during which the Armenian official spoke about different issues, including the global economic crisis and its influence on Armenia, the settlement of the Karabakh conflict and his expectations from the upcoming meeting of Armenian, Azerbaijani and Russian Presidents in Kazan.
“The Armenian leadership has the political will to move to on to an agreement and we realize that it is not easy, but we are hopeful that our Azerbaijani counterparts will demonstrate political will as well,” the Armenian Prime Minister said.
Speaking about the normalization of relations with Turkey, the Armenian PM said, “In the last twenty years Armenia has had a very clear political position on this issue. We are ready to normalize relations with our neighbor Turkey without any preconditions. However, the recent events showed that Turkey is not ready to do the same.”
Further he added that Turkey’s political weight will increase if the country follows the rules of the game.
“Turkey’s political weight is undermined by the problems the country has with its neighbours. Turkey should continue to carry out democratic reforms on the path to the EU accession, which will enable us to easily build sustainable relationship with our neighbouring country,” said Tigram Sargsyan.
On June 15, the Armenian PM left for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on a working visit.
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