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SCHROEDER SUPPORTED TURKISH PREMIER’S PROPOSAL
30.04.2005 04:23
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Shortly before his visit to Turkey German Federal
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed support to Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s latest proposal to create a joint Armenian-Turkish
historical commission to study the facts of the Armenian Genocide in 1915,
AFP-Istanbul reported. In Schroeder’s words, Erdogan’s proposal should be
supported. The German Chancellor assured that the issue of the Armenian
Genocide `will never be a precondition for Turkey’s accession to the EU.’ He
also noted that the bill on the Armenian Genocide being considered in
Bundestag does not complicate the German-Turkish relations. «It is quite
normal for the Parliaments to deal with historical issues,» noted Gerhard
Schroeder.
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