Security Council head: Armenia waiting for actions from Turkey to move forward

Armenia views the Armenia-Azerbaijan and Armenia-Turkey processes as separate and different directions from each other. The Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia, Armen Grigoryan, stated this during the forum entitled "Building the Future" on Wednesday—and referring to the voiced opinion that Turkey will not normalize its relations with Armenia until the latter and Azerbaijan reach an agreement.
"We [i.e. Armenia] see both processes in different ways. There are Armenia-Azerbaijan relations and Armenia-Turkey relations. We work towards these in different ways. Yes, there may be some correlation, but our approach is as follows: if there are two complex formulas to solve and you combine those complex formulas, the solution will be more difficult. So, they need to be separated. Our understanding and approach is that we have two different directions," said Grigoryan.
The secretary of the Security Council noted that Armenia expects that the agreement reached with Turkey on opening their land border for diplomatic passport holders and citizens of third countries will be implemented. Grigoryan noted that Armenia is waiting for actions from Turkey to move forward. According to the head of the Security Council of Armenia, no deadline has been set in this process.

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