"We consider [the Turkey-Armenia talks and Nagorno-Karabakh process] as parallel lines, and according to Euclidian geometry, parallel lines never cross. But, there are interactions. The historic reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia could affect the environment positively but not Nagorno-Karabakh talks," Bernard Fassier said Monday at a luncheon with a limited group of journalists. Fassier, on the eve of a crucial meeting between Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders early next month in St. Petersburg, visited Ankara as a last stop of a regional tour that included Yerevan and Baku. He held meetings at the Foreign Ministry just a week after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey would not open its border with Armenia unless Yerevan ends its occupation on Azerbaijani territory.
In contradiction to Fassier?s description of "parallel lines,
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