Turks to make investments in Armenia?
Shushi commander Jirair Sefilyan told "A1+" that he doesn't believe that Serzh Sargsyan will cross the open border to Turkey to watch the Armenia-Turkey football match in October while touching upon Serzh Sargsyan's wish to cross the Turkish-Armenian border.
According to Sefilyan, Turkish PM Rejeb Tayyib Erdogan is more realistic. Erdogan has excluded the signing of any treaty between Armenia and Turkey as long as the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unsettled and there is no agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
"Our authorities are in a state where any decision contradicts our state interests and the Turks are making maximalist statements regarding Artsakh and the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement. I am against the establishment of relations with Turkey because in reality we don't have a state and I praise the statement made by the Turkish PM."
The policy led by Turkey and Azerbaijan allows Sefilyan to say that as the NKR conflict as well as the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement can not be settled anytime soon. As for the opening of the Turkish-Armenian border, Sefilyan is against it because he believes that Armenia doesn't have a national system to confront the possible negative effects.
"My sources tell me that during the behind-the-scenes negotiations, the Armenian side is proposing the Turks to make investments in Armenia, restart factories and open tens of thousands of vacancies. The Turks are considering that and it is not excluded that they will take concrete steps. Do you imagine what awaits us? Some ten thousand Armenians will start working for the Turks and this means that the Turks will have rather serious levers in our domestic affairs," said Sefliyan.
