Stepanakert will not interfere in the Armenian-Turkish dialogue or in the positions the Armenian authorities and people are taking, Georgy Petrosyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), stated in his interview with the Turkish NTV channel.

“Our position is quite clear: we have never interfered in Armenia’s life despite issues of pan-Armenian importance we are concerned over in the context of the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement,” Petrosyan said. He expressed a wish that Turkey show a similar attitude to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, without linking it with the Armenian-Turkish dialogue.

“We would like the two issues be separated from each other. Attempts to link them will hardly contribute to the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Turkey is obviously hostage to its own promises to Azerbaijan – it gave the promises and has to keep them now,” Petrosyan said. According to him, Turkey is becoming an interested party in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. “It is being perceived as a kind of pressure, but positive results can hardly be attained by means of pressure,” Petrosyan said.