ATTENTION, COMPLETED VERSION! YEREVAN, APRIL 23, NOYAN TAPAN. "Turkey and Armenia, together with Switzerland as mediator, have been working intensively with a view to normalizing their bilateral relations and developing them in a spirit of good-neighborliness, and mutual respect, and thus to promoting peace, security and stability in the whole region". About this was said in the joint statement of the Ministries of foreign affairs of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Turkey and the Swiss Federal Department of foreign affairs. "The two parties have achieved tangible progress and mutual understanding in this process and they have agreed on a comprehensive framework for the normalization of their bilateral relations in a mutually satisfactory manner. In this context, a road-map has been identified. This agreed basis provides a positive prospect for the on-going process", was said in the joint statement. Later, in response to media's questions RA Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tigran Balayan explained that the word combination "road map" is an accepted and used notion in diplomatic lexicon, which means plan of steps to be undertaken.

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