DEPUTY PARLIAMENT SPEAKER ENDORSES PROPOSAL FOR TURKISH-ARMENIAN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION

Armenpress
Oct 10 2005

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 10, ARMENPRESS: Deputy parliament chairman Vahan
Hovhanesian from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation endorsed a
president Robert Kocharian’s proposal to set up a Turkish-Armenian
inter-governmental commission to tackle a broad range of sensitive
issues hurdling the two neighbor nations to normalize their relations,
saying it would be more effective than a commission of historians as
proposed by Turkey.

Speaking on the last day of a NATO-sponsored conference in Yerevan on
Saturday, Hovhanesian blamed Turkish authorities for leaving Armenian
proposal unanswered. Hovhanesian said apart the 1915 genocide of
Armenians the Turkish government has also seized a big part of
the Armenian republic in 1919. He said this was also an issue of
intergovernmental relations. He said the 1919 Turkish aggression was
the main reason behind many other subsequent problems, such as the
Karabakh conflict, the issue of Nakhichevan region, Armenian-Azeri
conflict and Turkish blockade of Armenia.