Pan Armenian News

TURKEY HAS TO HAVE COURAGE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

11.06.2005 03:56

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the Armenian Parliament Artur Baghdassaryan
met with a Turkish delegation headed by Deputy of the Grand National
Assembly of Turkey Turhan Comez, reported the Press Service of the National
Assembly of Armenia. Thereupon, A. Baghdassaryan noted that Armenia
advocates normal relations with all neighboring states. He also emphasized
that the problem issues of Armenian-Turkish relations have to be decided via
common discussions. «It is necessary to solve the problems available, not to
fight against them,» Baghdassaryan said. The Chairman of the Armenian
Parliament called to build relations facing the future and having at that
the courage to recognize the Armenian Genocide and go forward basing on the
joint way of Euro-integration. As noted by A. Baghdassaryan, Armenia hopes
for establishment of diplomatic relations as a basis for further discussion
of diverse issues. The Armenian party also noted that Armenia does not
object to having an EU member neighbor having provided that double standards
are ruled out. `There is no question for us whether there was a Genocide or
not and we consider one has to move forward and think of the future without
forgetting the past,’ Baghdassaryan said. He also noted that the Armenian
Constitution includes no slightest mentioning of land claims to Turkey.