'Armenia needs to restore ties with its neighbors.'
The vice president of the Union of Russian Armenian for social development and youth affairs Levon Munakyan, speaking to Vestnik Kavkaza online source, outlined the prospects of Armenia’s relations with its neighbors-Turkey and Azerbaijan.
According to the information center of the newspaper of Russian Armenians Yerkramas, the vice president said the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey should be restored at least on the level of civil community. Here is the extract from the indicated interview:
“The Armenian economy has the prospect of development with the opening of the transport blockade and we know that intergovernmental agreements with Turkey on this issue are ‘underway’. Someone sees positive in this, and other view it as a negative fact. Everything is relative in this world. We believe that Armenia needs to restore ties with its neighbors. We in the Caucasus say a good neighbor is better than a far relative. Therefore, we need to restore relations on the level of the civil society with both Azerbaijan and Turkey, because we want to pass a bright future to our children. I do not want to pass the war perspective to my son, I want him to live in conditions of good neighborliness and cooperation. We know our neighbors well, we lived and worked together. We, our generation, know this. But probably a decade will pass and the new generation will be torn of each other, which is, certainly, frightening for us, as the public figures”.
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