ARMENIAN PRESIDENT ON RELATIONS WITH TURKEY AND IRAN.

In an election speech to the staff of the Metsamor nuclear power plant, President Levon Ter-Petrosian said that as a result of recent realignments in the region, Armenia’s "first economic partner" is now Iran; and that Armenia-Iran relations are also close politically. (See Monitor, September 12) Ter-Petrosian also called for normalizing relations with Turkey "despite past conflicts," citing economic reasons and the fact that Turkey lies on Armenia’s shortest route to Europe. (Itar-Tass, September 13)

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