SCHROEDER BACKED TURKEY IN ARMENIAN ISSUE
Pan Armenian News
04.05.2005 09:05
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has
backed the initiative of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
on forming a historical commission to study the Armenian Genocide
in 1915, the German Chancellor stated at a meeting with Turkish PM,
reported Reuters Ankara. In the course of the conversation the German
Chancellor did not call the events of 1915 a «genocide.» Schroeder
also noted that improvement of the state of national minorities is
available in Turkey and urges the country to continue the reforms. He
also backed Erdogan in the EU providing financial assistance of 259
million euros to Northern Cyprus.
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