Babacan: "Turkey and Armenia have a platform for discussing our problems"

Turkey is now engaged in its most important negotiations with Armenia since World War I, said Foreign Minister Ali Babacan over the weekend. At the 45th Munich Security Conference in Germany, Babacan told reporters that Turkey and Armenia have a platform to discuss their problems. Touching on his meeting on the sidelines of the conference with Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and his counterpart Edward Nalbandian, he added that they made progress towards normalizing relations, which he said was their goal. Pointing to the high-level US presence at the conference, he said it was probably the first forum for the Obama administration to express its views on foreign policy and security. Meeting with US Vice President Joe Biden, Babacan added, "We want to advance our relations in every area with the US as a friend and allied country."