A new declaration on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict may be adopted this January or February, Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Institute of Caucasus, stated during a Yerevan-Moscow space bridge.

According to him, many in Turkey are against the Armenian-Turkish normalization an, in the context of Ankara’s statements on the need for progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, “a paper with something written about progress in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process would be quite to the point.” Iskandaryan said that a declaration similar to the Mayendorf declaration would be a document Turkey needs.

He also stated that the major problems of Armenian-Turkish relations are in Ankara, rather than in Yerevan. In Armenia, a number of intellectuals, journalists, public leaders, as well as some sections of the population, are against the Armenian-Turkish protocols. As regards Turkey, the public at large, the Establishment, representatives of the ruling party and top brass, nationalist forces, Foreign Ministry officials and members of the Turkish presidential staff – all of them object to the protocol.

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