The Armenian side no longer talks about the possibility of rapid progress before April 24, the day that commemorates the mass-killing of Armenians in 1915, but maintains cautious optimism about opening the border within 2009. Meanwhile, the U.S. administration dispatched Assistant Secretary of State Matt Bryza to the region.
Bryza arrives in Ankara today after a round of talks in Baku and Yerevan in search of a breakthrough on the Nagorno-Karabakh issue.
While Ankara now points to the meeting of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev on May 6 as a new critical juncture, it was learned that Bryza hoped for a breakthrough on the Karabakh issue in June. Former Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, who witnessed a failure of talks with then-Foreign Minister Abdullag Gul, argued that what was happening today was a repetition of history. Speaking exclusively to Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Saturday, Oskanian recalled his own experience with the Justice and Development Party, or AKP, government.
"I remember my first meeting with G
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