"Turkey, indeed, may have a problem reconciling these statements and its actual actions. I have said repeatedly: the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations cannot be conditioned on the resolution of the Artsakh issue or on any other precondition. Any attempt to link the two processes endangers both of them. On one occasion I told the Turkish side: "The only way Turkey can help the resolution of the Karabakh conflict is by not interfering,"" RA President Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview with Armenian Reporter.

"It would be less than candid to claim that the two issues are completely unrelated. After all, the Turks and Azerbaijanis claim they are one people. On the relationship between the two issues, I would say the following: the resolution of one issue - the normalization of Armenia-Turkey relations and the end of the blockade of Armenia - can, of course, create favorable conditions for the resolution of the other - the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. That is so because mutual trust in the region will increase, and that will create the positive atmosphere necessary for the resolution of the Karabakh conflict," RA President emphasized.