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    Leader urges debate of Turkey's "blockade" of Armenia at EU summit

    Mediamax news agency
    2 Dec 04


    YEREVAN

    Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has sent a letter to the leaders
    of all the EU member countries calling for the discussion of Turkey's
    blockade of Armenia at the forthcoming EU summit on 17 December,
    Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan said in the evening of 1
    December in an interview with Armenian Public TV.

    The Armenian foreign minister said that he had presented the Armenian
    side's position at a meeting with the ambassadors of the EU member
    countries accredited to Armenia.

    Yerevan is not expecting that an issue of lifting Turkey's blockade of
    the Armenian border will become an official precondition for Ankara at
    the summit which will focus on the issue of possible dates for opening
    talks on Turkey's accession to the EU, Oskanyan said.

    However, "we want the issue to be raised at the summit, as we consider
    unacceptable the fact that the country, which is on the threshold of
    the talks on the EU accession, has the closed borders with the country
    involved in the EU's New Neighbourhood Policy", he added.

    " We are carrying out very serious work in this direction and will
    continue it within two weeks," Vardan Oskanyan said.
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