CHIRAC URGES TURKEY TO RECOGNIZE 1915 GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS

Interfax Russia
Sept 30 2006

YEREVAN. Sept 30 (Interfax) – Turkey should admit the errors of
the past, including the 1915 genocide of Armenians, if it wants to
accede to the European Union, French President Jacques Chirac said
at a press conference during a state visit to Armenia on Saturday.

"I believe that any country, as long as it develops, also confesses
to mistakes it made in the past, and I think Turkey should seriously
think about this issue," Chirac said.

Chirac referred to the example of Germany, which has not lost its
greatness by admitting the Holocaust but, on the contrary, other
nations have started to trust it more.
From: Baghdasarian