Pan Armenian News

ARMENIAN FM CALLED EU TO MAKE ANKARA OPEN ARMENIAN BORDER

27.05.2005 06:18

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The EU should increase the pressure upon Turkey for the
opening of the Armenian border, Armenian FM Vartan Oskanian stated, reported
RFE/RL. V. Oskanian called the EU to be «more confident» and «make Ankara
open the last close border of Europe.» «The Turkish party blocks the
Armenian border, but it is not understandable for us and we expect the EU to
be more confident in that issues,» he said in Helsinki. When commenting on
the proposal of official Ankara to form a joint historical commission to
study the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the course of the meeting with
Finnish FM, V. Oskanian called the terms of the Turkish party
«unacceptable». «We should follow the example of other European countries.
Hardly in Europe or anywhere else there are two countries that do not have
differences over comments of the history. However, it does not prevent them
from having normal ties and diplomatic relations,» the Armenian FM said.