As theTurkish and Armenian presidents met to discuss the establishment of bilateral ties on the margins of a football match, a group of Azerbaijani deputies flew to the Turkish capital in an effortto convince Turkish lawmakers to postpone the ratification of the protocols signed between Ankara and Yerevan on Saturday.
Eleven deputies from the Azerbaijani parliament met Tuesday with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Parliament Speaker Mehmet Ali Şahin in Ankara. The deputies requested that top Turkish officials not ratify the protocols signed with Armenia until Yerevan withdraws from the Azerbaijani territories it has occupied since the early 1990s.
Broadcaster NTV said the deputies were satisfiedwith the messages they received from Erdogan. The prime minister assured them that Turkey would not act against Azerbaijani interests.
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