EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee urges Turkey to ratify
Armenian-Turkish protocols
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Friday, November 30, 16:02
The EU-Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee deplores the
non-ratification of the two Armenia- Turkey protocols, signed in
Zurich in 2009, in that context urges all parties, Turkey in
particular, to meet their commitments, says the Final Statement of the
EU- Armenia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Thirteenth Meeting on
28-29 November 2012, in Brussels.
The Committee stresses the importance of ratifying the Zurich
protocols and stepping up efforts to facilitate the normalisation of
relations without any preconditions, with the subsequent opening of
the unilaterally closed border.
The Committee believes that the Armenia-Turkey normalization process
and the OSCE Minsk Group negotiations should not be linked and
supports all initiatives aimed at facilitation of regional
cooperation, thus ending the policies of economic isolation of any
country in the region.
The Statement recalls the European Parliament resolution of 1987 on
recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The Committee states that it is
however encouraged by the fact that the issue has, in recent years,
become the focus of open and public debate in Turkey itself, which
could contribute to reconciliation between the two neighbouring
nations ensuring their peaceful co-existence and lasting cooperation.
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