RA FM: RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS NOT CONDITION FOR
ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS ARRANGEMENT

ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
October 20, 2006 Friday

Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 is
not a condition of Armenia-Turkey relations arrangement, RA Foreign
Minister, Vardan Oskanyan, said in an interview to the "Haikakan
Zhamanak" newspaper.

According to him, recognition of the Armenian Genocide is a recognition
of the historical fact , according to which a monstrous crime was
committed with respect to the Armenian people, one and a half million
people had been killed, the people turned out to be alienated from its
land. The world has to recognize this crime. "Our moral debt before
the people is to achieve this", V. Oskanyan emphasized. He also noted
this problem will remain in the RA Foreign Ministry’s agenda until
Turkey recognizes the Genocide.