EU TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH TIES
PanARMENIAN.Net
09.10.2009 20:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Today, European Friends of Armenia held a lunchtime
briefing at its Brussels office with H.E. Karine Ghazinyan, Deputy
Foreign Minister of Armenia. The focus of H.E. Ms Ghazinyan’s speech
and the subsequent discussion was on current key issues of EU-Armenia
Cooperation and the role of the EU in Armenia-Turkey relations.
"The normalization of relations between Armenia and Turkey will be a
truly historic development, as it will signify the first resolution of
a dispute in the South Caucasus by purely diplomatic means. The Union
should apply "conditioned anchoring" to both parties. By this we mean
the process in which the Union grants financial, economic and political
incentives to the parties involved, conditioned to further progress
in the implementation of the protocols," EuFoA says in a release.
The Union should, among other initiatives, implement Confidence
Building Measures in Armenia and Turkey, promote cross-border
projects and strengthen P2P contacts. The whole process is not only
intergovernmental, civil societies on both sides have to be actively
involved, as they are the primary stakeholders of the process,
EuFoA reports.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
