Armenian Foreign Minister: dialogue with Turkey develops in positive direction

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YEREVAN, October 23. /ARKA/. Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan said that the dialogue with Turkey is developing in a positive direction.br/pp ‘Tangible progress has already been recorded in this regard, we also plan to implement certain joint confidence-building measures,’ Mirzoyan said during the government QA session Wednesday./pp

According to him, there is an agreement on partial opening of the border for a certain category of people./pp ‘This has not been implemented at present, but we will continue working in this direction,’ Mirzoyan said./pp

Mirzoyan said also that the proposal to hold a meeting on the peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan within the framework of the 3+3 regional consultative platform is not on the table as such./pp

The propsal was made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on 18 October at a meeting of the platform in Turkey. He said that Moscow, Ankara and Tehran had offered Yerevan and Baku to use the 3+3 platform to finalise a peace treaty./pp ‘We do not consider it appropriate to respond to it, because we have a format of bilateral negotiations with Azerbaijan. We had another round of talks with Foreign Minister Bayramov in Istanbul,’ Mirzoyan said./pp

According to him, during the meeting they focused on the text of the peace treaty фтв tried to ensure positive development and bring closer its early signing./pp

Mirzoyan said Armenia seeks to substantially develop relations with its partners, as well as to тщкьфдшяу relations with those neighbours with whom there are no relations./pp ‘Armenia continues and will continue to participate in the work of the 3+3 regional consultation platform,’ Mirzoyan said. -0--/p