Yerevan will never support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General, Foreign Ministry says

February 15, 2011 - 17:11 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Spokesperson for the Armenian Foreign Ministry Tigran Balayan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter that Yerevan will not support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General.

Turkey has nominated Ersin Ercin for the post.

An Armenian diplomatic source said on February 14 that support to Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General is inadmissible for Yerevan. “Support is provided to a friendly country, while Turkey is not such. Turkey issued a similar request for several times, but was rejected,” the source said.

Haberturk reported that President Abdullah Gul plans to request his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan to support Turkey’s candidate for OSCE Secretary General, while Turkey’s candidate, ambassador Ersin Ercin will personally hand the letter to President Sargsyan in March.