PanArmenian News
March 15 2005

ISSUE OF RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT TO BECOME POLITICAL
CRITERION FOR TURKEY’S ACCESSION TO EU

15.03.2005 05:47

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ `The issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide
will not be a political criterion for Turkey,’ head of the
representation of the European Commission in Turkey Hansjorg
Kretschmer stated. The demands that the international community
recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide, which are on the agenda
in France, raised the questions on how these demands will tell on
Turkey’s ambitious plans of accession to the EU. Hansjorg Kretschmer
noted that the decision to support the beginning of talks with Turkey
on its accession to the EU, passed December 17, 2004, evidences that
official Ankara `has met the political criteria to a considerable
degree.’