YEREVAN, Armenia — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged Armenia and Turkey to move ahead with a historic rapprochement, and Yerevan said it hoped that Ankara was not blocking ratification of their deal to end a century of hostility.
The accords need parliamentary ratification, a step that Turkey says depends on Armenia making concessions in a festering conflict with Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Armenia rejects the link, and won the backing of Lavrov. “To try and artificially link those two issues is, in my opinion, not correct,” Lavrov told reporters in Yerevan.
(Reuters)