“The Armenian authorities have ‘served the Armenian Genocide to Turkey on a dish’, but the border has not so far been reopened nor will it,” Arman Musinyan, Spokesman for Armenia’s first president Chairman of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) Levon Ter-Petrosyan, told reporters.

The reason for his conclusion is Turkish high-ranking officials’ statements linking the Armenian-Turkish rapprochement to the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process. “The day the border is reopened, I will state that the Nagorno-Karabakh problem has been resolved,” Musikyan said.

He also stated that “after the Zurich deviation the dangerous developments will intensify in the Nagorno-Karabakh peace process, which does not promise anything good to Armenia.”