EU HAS NO INTENTION TO ADVANCE ISSUE OF RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE BY TURKEY AS PRECONDITION TO OPEN EU ENTRY TALKS

BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 17. ARMINFO. Asked whether the EU would press for
Turkey to recognize a genocide of Armenians early in the last century,
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said there were
no plans to add new hurdles to Ankara’s bid to open EU entry talks,
Reuters reports.

“We can’t introduce new political conditions. it wouldn’t be fair to
do that… That was not one of them, so neither today nor tomorrow
are we going to come up with new political provisos,” he said.

But he stressed that the topic was not taboo but rather one that
would be dealt with in the future: “The issue raised and possibly
many others must be the subject of open and frank dialogue.”

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress