Turkey says offer still open to set up historians’ committee with Armenia

Anatolia news agency
18 Mar 06

Ankara, 18 March: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) personnel who
were killed in armed attacks while serving abroad were commemorated
in a ceremony held in their special graveyard on Thursday [16 March].

Speaking in the commemoration, MFA Undersecretary Ali Tuygan said
that MFA personnel were killed by Armenian terrorism, 17 November
militants and other terrorist organizations since 1973. Tuygan noted
that totally 39 ministry personnel, including five security guards
who were killed in Mosul on 17 December 2004, were buried in the
graveyard assigned to “MFA martyrs”.

Tuygan said that the belief of Turkish people in peace and Turkey’s
initiatives in that context were sincere, stressing that the historic
proposal made to Armenia last year was still valid.

Turkey had proposed to Armenia to set up a joint commission composed
of historians from Turkey and Armenia to open without any restriction
their national archives, and to disclose the findings of their
research (which will also cover the archives of related countries)
to international public.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress