H. BAGRATYAN: "THERE IS ONLY ONE STEP FROM HATRED TO LOVE"
Aysor.am
Friday, October 09
"The genocide has not been the cornerstone of our foreign policy,
it has been an important issue, but not a goal", – Hrant Bagratyan,
the former Prime Minister of Armenia said during the meeting with
the journalists and added that it was Robert Kocharyan who turned
the Genocide into an aim.
H. Bagratyan coming to the determination of the Turkish side of making
the question of Genocide an issue for discussions in the frameworks
of the Armenian – Turkish protocols, mentioned that Abdullah Gul
has already invited the historians for participating in the works of
that commission.
The Former PM reminded that long before they were warning "form hatred
to love there is just one step" and if "The Genocide will become an
aim" it can have another influence.
"We did everything, we helped the Europe, became a coin in their hands
for Turkey not to enter Europe", – said H. Bagratian and explained
that Turkey had to have either Western or Eastern policy.
"The blind nationalism brings an opposite effect", – underlined
H. Bagratyan and mentioned that together with the Cyprus issue the
issue of the Armenian Genocide became one of the conditions in case
of solution of which Turkey can become a member of the European Union.
The speaker doesn’t think that it is especially because of the
Armenians that Turkey became a member of European Union but stressed
that "Armenia assisted it".
"I don’t think that we, in case if Turkey becomes a member of the
European Union, will jump with happiness but it would become less
dangerous and more predictive country", – underlined Hrant Bagratyan.