Armenia denies Turkish proposal of joint probe into genocide claims

Public Television of Armenia, Yerevan
14 Apr 05

The Armenian leadership has not received from Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan any proposal on setting up a bilateral expert
commission on studying the facts of the Armenian genocide in 1915,
presidential spokesman Viktor Sogomonyan has said.

To recap, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said in parliament
that Prime Minister Erdogan had sent a letter to Armenian President
Robert Kocharyan with a proposal to set up the commission, the Turkish
media reported.