TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY: IDEAS OF GENOCIDE STILL ON YEREVAN FOREIGN
POLICY AGENDA
Pan Armenian News
Nov 12 2004
ANKARA, 12.11.04. Turkey has not received any documents testifying
that the ideas of the Genocide were excluded from the agenda of
the Armenian foreign policy, consequently one cannot speak of any
changes in Yerevan`s policy on the Genocide issue, Turkish Foreign
Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan stated during a press conference. As
Milliyet Turkish newspaper writes, he pointed out to the fact that
despite the information that appeared in the press, official Yerevan
has not changed its stand. To remind, when replying to the question
why the budget project for year 2005 does not include allocation of
funds for carrying out the policy of the recognition of the Armenian
Genocide Hamlet Gasparian, the Press sercretary of the Armenian Foreign
Ministry stated that Yerevan policy on the issue of the internnational
recognition of the Armenian Genocide has unregone no changes. Besides,
according to him, the issue of the international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide is still on the agenda of official Yerevan and
cannot be put in the budget or any fiscal document.