"The Nagorno-Karabakh problem concerns Turkey but Turkey's involvement in a plan for a solution is not under consideration. We only receive information from the parties concerned," Foreign Ministry spokesman Burak Ozugergin was quoted as saying by the Anatolia news agency.
His remarks came after daily Hurriyet published an article that revealed a number of settlement areas would be handed over to Azerbaijan under a reconciliation plan on the Nagorno-Karabakh problem discussed between Foreign Minister Ali Babacan and Armenian and Azerbaijani officials. Babacan held talks with his Armenian counterpart as well as the Armenian president on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich over the weekend and flew to Baku for further consultations with his Azerbaijani counterpart and the Azerbaijani president. On route to Baku, Babacan revised the latest stage of the talks with Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Memmedyarov, with whom he was on the same plane.
Following the diplomacy traffic on the Munich-Baku track, Armenia was reported to be looking warmly toward the handover of six settlement areas densely populated by the Azeris to Azerbaijan stage by stage, said the daily.
The Armenian Foreign Ministry denied the report and said it had not conducted negotiations for a settlement with Turkey's mediation. Tigran Balaian, spokesman for the ministry, said negotiations had been conducted through the mediation of the Organization for Security and Cooperation Group's Minsk Group based on the Madrid proposals.
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