Giro Manoyan, who heads the ARF Hay Tad and Political Affairs Office, today stated that Armenia must break off talks with Turkey. He based his statement on Turkish PM Erdogan's recent statement that the issue of Karabakh must be settled before the border with Armenia is opened. Mr. Manoyan doesn't agree with the interpretation given by the Armenian government that the Turkish prime minister's remarks were for domestic consumption The ARF official said that the Armenian government isn't ready to pull out of the talks because President Serzh Sargsyan has stated that if the talks prove fruitless we will have shown the world that we were ready to negotiate with Turkey without preconditions and that Armenia wasn't at fault. If the government pulls out now it will give the impression that we have sabotaged the talks. "We should have understood from the start that we are dealing with a country like Turkey and that Turkish diplomacy is capable of creating such a state of affairs. Thus, it is neither possible, acceptable nor understandable why we are playing such games with the Turkish diplomatic machine," Mr. Manoyan said. He went on to say that Armenia has culled nothing from the talks except for the fact that the Armenian foreign minister was invited to the United States as a result of the April 22 "road map" declaration. "We can clearly see that day in and day out theses talks are only leading to further losses of political dividends and time," Mr. Manoyan said. Mr. Manoyan also isn't satisfied with the answers coming from official Yerevan in response to Turkish statements. "Neither our president or foreign minister has said whether we will continue the talks with Turkey or break them off. Azerbaijan would surely be pleased to see the talks collapse as a result of Turkey's intervention in the Karabakh issue because we really can't be sure that Azerbaijan wants the issue to be resolved."