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    "WE SPEAK ABOUT EACH OTHER, BUT NOT WITH EACH OTHER"

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    [03:57 pm] 29 November, 2006

    "Do you know where you are going? Are you sure where you are
    going? Have you thought it over well enough?"

    - these were the questions the confused Georgian frontier guard asked
    the Azeri journalists who were coming to Armenia. The journalists
    themselves told about it today in Armenia who explained half-jokingly
    what results the mutual visits can have.

    The representatives of Azerbaijan and Turkey have been in Armenia
    since November 27. The visit has been organized by civic movement
    "Alternative Start" according to which it is the fourth power that
    forms the society, thus it is necessary to organize a dialogue between
    Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan on the level of the journalists.

    Representative of the Embassy of Great Britain who supported the
    organization of the visit, mentioned that today the following principle
    is applied, "We speak about each other, but not with each other"
    which is supposed to change the philosophy of the meetings.

    The guests are to meet students and journalists.

    The Azeri journalists agreed that until now suchlike meetings
    and visits have been organized in Armenia only. "Before 2001-2002
    Armenians used to visit Baku where meetings were organized. During
    the last meeting over 30 Armenians came. I don't know what happened,
    but after Heidar Aliev there were changes for the worse", mentioned
    writer Alekper Aliev. He also added that "the image of an enemy has
    not yet been eliminated".

    Correspondent of newspaper "Anatolia" and radio TRT Nursul Erel
    represented a report about the situation of the press and answered
    the questions of the journalists.

    First she tried to prove via a historical flashback that press has a
    long history in Turkey, and then by the example of the covering of the
    Armenian Genocide she tried to prove that there are no restrictions
    on freedom of speech in the Turkish press.

    The representative of Turkey has her own opinion on that historical
    fact. "I personally think that there has been such a tragedy, but it
    should not become a mania". According to Mrs. Erel, she was glad to
    hear about the letter of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to the RA
    Prime Minister asking to create a joint committee of historians in
    order to investigate the documentation concerning the Genocide. "Don't
    you think it would be nice for historians to investigate the issue?",
    the representative of Turkey asked the Armenian journalists with a
    naivete not peculiar to journalists.

    She also mentioned that she visited Armenia in 2001 and paid a visit
    to the Museum of Armenian Genocide, and if there were a chance,
    she would like to go there again.
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