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    EU-ARMENIA RELATIONS TO GRADUALLY BECOME CLOSER, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE IS SURE

    Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
    Sept 29 2006

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The European Union-Armenia
    relations will gradually develop, and like the Armenian-French
    relations, they will become closer. But one must not avoid regular
    succession of stages. President of France Jacques Chirac expressed
    this confidence in the September 28 interview to the "Hayastani
    Hanrapetoutiun" (Republic of Armenia) newspaper. In his words,
    the Armenia-European Union relations are still new ones. "But it
    is the first stage. Nearest end of the negotiations on the European
    Union-Armenia actions plan must give possibility to pass its whole
    volume to the neighborhood policy," the President of France said.

    As for Turkey's membership to the European Union, Jacques Chirac
    expressed an opinion that this prospect is an important element to
    keep Turkey on the way tiing to the West, choice of which it made.

    "The membership itself supposes implementation of standards, fostering
    of reforms. It is a demanding, long and difficult way. I am sure
    it arisis of interests of both European Union and Armenia to see
    Turkey striving for our values, our perception of the human rights,
    peace, democracy," he emphasized. Responding the question if France
    will insist on opening the borders with Armenia and recognizing the
    Armenian Genocide, J.Chirac said that he had spoken for opening the
    borders many times at meetings with the Turkish authorities. "But it
    is clear that this issue is very strongly connected with the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict settlement, and that the settlement progress may
    have a decisive influence on this issue," he mentioned, expressing
    an opinion that it is possible today.

    "As for the Armenian Genocide committed by the Ottaman Empire,
    Europe is an effort for reconciliation, peace, respect and being open
    towards others, which always and everywhere is turned into an effort
    of memory," the President of France emphasized, adding that if even
    it is a long and difficult process, he trusts Turkey's possibility
    "to bring to end this duty of memory as the soul of creating Europe
    is just this."
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