President Of Romania Considers Issue Of Turkey’s Recognition Of Arme

PRESIDENT OF ROMANIA CONSIDERS ISSUE OF TURKEY’S RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE AS HISTORIC ARGUMENT

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Oct 5 2006

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. Romania is always ready to help a
neighbouring state in issues relating to borders and history.

President of Romania Traian Basescu stated about it at the October
5 meeting with the students and professors’ and lecturers’ staff of
the Yerevan State University organized within the two-day official
visit in Armenia.

Responding the question how he relates to Turkey’s membership to
the European Union, if we take into consideration that Turkey does
not recognize the Armenian Genocide and keeps close the border with
Armenia, T.Basescu mentioned that it is necessary to build the future,
and to keep the history in history books and people’s memory.

"And do not put the historic arguments as a condition of future,"
T.Basescu advised. In his words, "speaking about the future, the
only right way is integration to the EU, keeping that main standard
that it is necessary to have good friendly relations with the EU and
NATO." "The NATO and the EU are not those structures which will allow
discussion of historic arguments inside them," he emphasized.

Touching upon the possible precedent of adopting the law considering
punishable refusal of the Armenian Genocide in France, the President
of Romania emphasized: "We’ll not do a thing that will influence
on our neutrality in relations with all the countries of the Black
Sea region."

To recap, at the meeting with the YSU professors’ and lecturers’ staff
and students, T.Basescu was confered the YSU honorary doctor’s title.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS