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TURKEY SHOULD TAKE APPROPRIATE MOVE TO NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2006 20:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia sets no preconditions for establishment
of normal relations with Turkey, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian said.
"Armenia was ready yesterday, is ready today and will be ready tomorrow
to establish neighbor relations with Turkey without preconditions
and have open borders with it," the RA FM stated.
"We admit that problems exist but show me two states, especially
in Europe, experiencing no historical problems. However no state
practises the "instrument of closed borders" to force another state
to renounce its history," the Minister said.
In his words, Turkey should take an appropriate move for the
normalization of bilateral relations. Vartan Oskanian considers that
Turkey doesn't wish to develop bilateral political relations and
this excludes any progress. "Turkey is incapable to overcome its
narrow-ethnic interests and take a wider approach to the regional
problems," Vartan Oskanian considers.
According to him, Turkey had the possibility immediately after the
USSR collapse and then at the start of the talks with the EU. "In the
first case it obviously made a mistake and failed, in the second case
the possibility still exists. Anyway it's not late yet to get proper
orientation and try to establish normal relations with Armenia,"
the Armenian FM said, reported Novosti-Armenia.
PanARMENIAN.Net
19.04.2006 20:14 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia sets no preconditions for establishment
of normal relations with Turkey, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian said.
"Armenia was ready yesterday, is ready today and will be ready tomorrow
to establish neighbor relations with Turkey without preconditions
and have open borders with it," the RA FM stated.
"We admit that problems exist but show me two states, especially
in Europe, experiencing no historical problems. However no state
practises the "instrument of closed borders" to force another state
to renounce its history," the Minister said.
In his words, Turkey should take an appropriate move for the
normalization of bilateral relations. Vartan Oskanian considers that
Turkey doesn't wish to develop bilateral political relations and
this excludes any progress. "Turkey is incapable to overcome its
narrow-ethnic interests and take a wider approach to the regional
problems," Vartan Oskanian considers.
According to him, Turkey had the possibility immediately after the
USSR collapse and then at the start of the talks with the EU. "In the
first case it obviously made a mistake and failed, in the second case
the possibility still exists. Anyway it's not late yet to get proper
orientation and try to establish normal relations with Armenia,"
the Armenian FM said, reported Novosti-Armenia.