VLADIMIR KARAPETIAN REFUTES ZAMAN’S REPORT ON NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN
ARMENIA AND TURKEY
YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 1, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. No negotiations
are going on between Armenia and Turkey. Vladimir Karapetian, Acting
Spokesperson of RA Foreign Ministry, declared this commenting upon the
September 1 report of the Zaman Turkish daily at the request of NT
correspondent. According to the report of the above mentioned
newspaper, the negotiations of the officials of the two countries’
Foreign Ministries aimed at creating a joint commission of
"historians" between Turkey and Armenia that stopped in 2006 April are
going on at present. The Acting Spokesperson of RA Foreign Ministry
also excluded any consultation or discussion of Turkish and Armenian
diplomats on this issue in the near future.