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    "TURKEY DIDN'T WISH TO GO FURTHER"

    http://a1plus.am/en/official/2010/07/13/turkey
    01:06 pm | July 13, 2010 | Official

    On the first day of the working visit to Brussels, Chairman of the
    RA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan had a meeting with President
    of the Belgian Senate Armand de Decker.

    The Chairman of Belgium's Senate mentioned that Belgium attaches great
    importance to the development of bilateral and multilateral relations
    with Armenia and voiced hope that Hovik Abrahamyan's next visit to
    Brussels would be an official visit and reaffirmed his invitation.

    Let us mention that Chairman of the RA National Assembly Hovik
    Abrahamyan is the first high-ranking Armenian official to visit
    Brussels after Belgium took the presidency of the European Union.

    During the meeting, the parties discussed regional issues as well. Mr.
    Abrahamyan presented Armenia's approaches to the settlement of the
    Karabakh conflict and relations with neighboring countries. The NA
    Chairman stressed that Armenia has declared several times that the
    conflict must be settled peacefully and Azerbaijan is impeding the
    process with its bellicose statements. Abrahamyan expressed concern
    that the international community is not giving an adequate evaluation
    of Azerbaijan's actions.

    Touching upon the process of normalization of Armenian-Turkish
    relations, Armand de Decker highly appreciated Armenia's daring
    and initiating policy on establishing relations with Turkey without
    preconditions, mentioning that Turkey disappointed the European Union
    by setting preconditions.

    During the meeting, the parties discussed issues of bilateral interest
    as well and in the end, the heads of both parliaments answered
    journalists' questions.

    In response to the question on the normalization of Armenian-Turkish
    relations Mr. Decker said: "I deeply regret that the active diplomacy
    failed and it was Turkey's fault for setting new conditions in relation
    to Nagorno-Karabakh at the moment when it had to ratify the signed
    Protocols. It is disappointing that Turkey didn't wish to go further
    in the normalization of relations with Armenia."

    Touching upon relations with Armenia, Mr. Decker said: "We would
    like to deepen relations with Armenia within the frame of Belgium's
    EU presidency. We believe that those relations are fundamental for
    Armenia and the European Union, which wishes to improve its relations
    with a country with which it is linked due to an active community in
    Europe, as well as political and strategic interests."

    On the same day, Chairman of the RA National Assembly Hovik Abrahamyan
    had a meeting with deputies of the European Parliament, Co-Rapporteurs
    on Armenia Thomas Poreba and Charles Tanok.

    Mr. Poreba and Mr. Tanok assured that they would do everything possible
    to present the European Parliament with impartial information about
    Armenia and the Armenian side's position. The parties considered
    the presence of closed borders in Europe of the 21st century as
    inadmissible.




    From: A. Papazian
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