Under pressure by NATO and the European Union, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey pledged to seek to resolve their tangled disputes through trilateral meetings. The foreign ministers of the three troubled neighbors, Vardan Oskanian of Armenia, Elmar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan and Abdullah Gul of Turkey met on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Istanbul. Emphasizing that both NATO and the EU were keen to stabilize the conflict-torn Caucasian region, Gul told reporters after the meeting that they had discussed \"ways and means of cooperating to achieve stability through constructive means.\" He said he and his counterparts had agreed to hold further trilateral meetings later in the year. \"We need to shape a new strategic vision for the Caucasus so that we can keep pace with the developments around us,\" Oskanian said, referring to the enlargement of the EU and NATO. Mamedyarov added: \"We will try to do our best to bring peace and stability to the region.\" Armenia and Azerbaijan are divided by a long-standing territorial dispute over the enclave of Nagorny-Karabakh, for which they fought in the early 1990s. A close ally of Azerbaijan, Turkey has declined to establish diplomatic ties with Armenia and remains bitter at Yerevan\'s efforts to secure international condemnation of the killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire during World War I as \"genocide.\" Ankara is under pressure by the EU, which it seeks to join, to re-open its border with Armenia, which it closed in 1993 in a show of solidarity with Baku. Oskanian told reporters he had discussed the issue with Gul in a bilateral meeting earlier in the day. He said he was \"very satisfied,\" with the meeting, but added that it would be premature to expect an immediate re-opening of the border. (AFP)