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RA MFA Welcomes Any Beginnings Aimed at Opening Armenian-Turkish Border
13.01.2007 13:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Turkey must establish normal relations with its all
neighbors in the region without preconditions, said Arman Kirakosyan,
the Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister, in his opening speech on
`Economic and social aftermath of opening the Armenian-Turkish border’
conference, which is being held in Yerevan. In his words, the Turkish
government does not implement the European Union’s condition, which
says that a candidate state must establish good-neighbor relations
with all the states in the region. `First of all the provinces near
border will benefit from opening of the Armenian-Turkish border, which
in this case will get new stimulus for development. It is also
profitable from the economic point of view to reconstruct the
`Kars-Gyumri’ railway.’ Kirakosyan underlined. The Armenia Deputy
Foreign Ministry also said that Turkey does not make effort to
establish cooperation in the region, which, in Kirakosyan’s opinion,
can become a pledge for stability.
Alongside he stressed that the RA MFA welcomes any beginnings aimed at
opening the Armenian-Turkish border. `Up till now the main relations
between Turkey and Armenia were carried out on the level of social
organizations and not of governmental. In 2005 the Armenian President
sent a letter to the Turkish authority offering to create an
Armenian-Turkish joint commission for establishing dialog between the
two states. But up till now there is no answer from Turkey. Several
meetings took place between the representatives of MFA’s of both
countries and even between the foreign ministers. But unfortunately,
they were ineffective.` said the Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister.
Kirakosyan one more time reminded that Armenia is ready for dialog
with Turkey without preconditions, which are the Armenian Genocide
issue and Ankara’s stance on the Nagorno Karabakh conflict.