PanArmenian News
March 24 2005
OSKANIAN: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE INTERNATIONAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND
ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS LIE IN TWO DIFFERENT PLANES
24.03.2005 05:07
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ «Turkey is trying to take preventive measure to
prevent measures devoted to the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide in Turkey. However, we will work in the normal regime and we
plan to hold many measures,» Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan
Oskanian stated, the Yerkir newspaper reported. In his words, the
issue has exceeded the limits of merely Armenian circles and having
felt it Turkey opens a wide counteraction front. «However, this front
is not directed against Armenia, but against the international
community, against the humanity,» the Armenian Minister accentuated,
adding that such policy will be futile, as there is one reality and
Turkey has to put up with it. «In any case the issue of the
international acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide and the
Armenian-Turkish relations lie in two different planes and do not
intersect. For us the issue of the Genocide is not a precondition for
normalization of relations with Turkey. We are always ready to
dialogue with the Turkish party, however we will be consistent in the
Genocide issue,» the Armenian Foreign Minister said.
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