ITAR-TASS News Agency
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April 24, 2005 Sunday

Genocide must be on agenda of EU-Turkey talks – federation

By Vitaly Makarchev

PARIS

The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy called on
the European Union on Sunday to put on the agenda of future accession
negotiations with Turkey the Turkish recognition of Armenian genocide
in the Ottoman Empire.

The EU and Turkey will start the accession negotiations this October.
The negotiations may make Turkey a EU member country within the next
10-15 years.

The denial of genocide endangers such fundamental European values as
justice and peace, the Federation said.

Nine of 25 member countries – France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, the
Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Slovakia and Cyprus – have called for
discussing the genocide question at the negotiations with Turkey.