KIRO MANOYAN: IF TURKEY ENTERS EUROPEAN UNION WITH ITS PRESENT STATE, IT WILL MEAN, EU IS, IN GENERAL, CLOSE BEFORE ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan
Dec 18 2006
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. To enter the European Union
(EU), Turkey must certainly be reformed, and the standard for
that reformation is the recognition of the Armenian Genocide for
Armenia. Kiro Manoyan, the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office responsible
of the ARF Dashnaktsutiun stated about it at the December 16 press
conference. In his opinion, however, Armenia must not hinder from
Turkey’s membership to the EU. But that country, in K.Manoyan’s words,
did not implement the obligations taken still the last year, that’s, to
open ports and airports before Cyprus. "Our anxiety is the following:
one must not allow that Turkey, with its political accountings,
without being reformed, enters the EU," K.Manoyan mentioned, facting
that doors before Cyprus not opened yet, the EU continued with Turkey
the negotiations on membership. "If Turkey enters the EU with its
present state, it will mean that the EU is, in general, close before
us," the speaker concluded.