{"id":14463,"date":"2009-09-01T05:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T03:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=14463"},"modified":"2023-04-15T17:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T14:35:54","slug":"press-release-by-the-swiss-federal-department-of-foreign-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/09\/01\/press-release-by-the-swiss-federal-department-of-foreign-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Press release by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Press release by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs,  the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey<\/p>\n<p><\/strong>Berne, Yerevan,  Ankara 31 August 2009<\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey  have agreed to start their internal political consultations on the two protocols  &#8211; the &#8220;Protocol on the establishment of diplomatic relations&#8221; and the &#8220;Protocol  on the development of bilateral relations&#8221; &#8211; which have been initialled in the  course of their efforts under Swiss mediation.<\/p>\n<p>The two Protocols provide  for a framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations within a  reasonable timeframe. The political consultations will be completed within six  weeks, following which the two Protocols will be signed and submitted to the  respective Parliaments for the ratification on each side. Both sides will make  their best efforts for the timely progression of the ratification in line with  their constitutional and legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The normalization of  bilateral relations will contribute to regional peace and stability. The  Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey are committed to pursuing their  joint efforts with the assistance of Switzerland.\u00a0 \u00a0 <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.eda.admin.ch\/eda\/en\/home.html\"><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>__._,_.___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey Berne, Yerevan, Ankara 31 August 2009 The Republic of Armenia and the Republic of Turkey have agreed to start their internal political consultations on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":774856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenian-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}