{"id":44389,"date":"2011-09-28T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=44389"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:26:26","slug":"no-one-can-force-armenia-or-turkey-insist-ambassadors-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/09\/28\/no-one-can-force-armenia-or-turkey-insist-ambassadors-in-armenia\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Can Force Armenia or Turkey, Insist Ambassadors in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epress.am &#8212;  No one from outside can force Armenia, Azerbaijan or Turkey to take this or that step. These countries have to sit together and resolve their problem, said former US Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans today at the \u201cAssessing Independence in Armenia and the Region\u201d public forum organized by the Civilitas Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-44391\" title=\"Protocol1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Protocol1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"280\" \/>\u201cAs you know we often have difficult relations with Turkey, as, for example, in the war with Iraq, Turkey refused to get troops into Iraq. Thus, America can\u2019t force, it can support processes through different formats, but resolving the conflict is the problem of those countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>German Ambassador to Armenia Hans-Jochen Schmidt, also speaking on the panel, likewise emphasized that the \u201coutside world\u201d cannot force a decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe EU also takes steps in the issue of resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, as well as the normalization of relations with Turkey, but they can\u2019t force anything,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt said the most important step in Armenia-Turkey relations is the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, after which discussions on other issues will begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s important is that the parties understand that by establishing diplomatic relations, no one is doing anyone a favor; it is a normal process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>via ArmeniaDiaspora.com &#8211; News from Armenia, Events in Armenia, Travel and Entertainment | No One Can Force Armenia or Turkey, Insist Ambassadors in Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epress.am &#8212; No one from outside can force Armenia, Azerbaijan or Turkey to take this or that step. These countries have to sit together and resolve their problem, said former US Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans today at the \u201cAssessing Independence in Armenia and the Region\u201d public forum organized by the Civilitas Foundation. \u201cAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":44391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,7,41],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-44389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-armenian-question","category-azerbaijan","tag-nagorno-karabakh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389","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=44389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}