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Armenian Genocide and Karabakh conflict must not be tied with each other
30.01.2007 16:30 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ For the European Union the Armenian Genocide issue
is one more cause of refusing Turkey’s EU bid, stated NKR President’s
Aide for Foreign Policy Arman Melikian to a press conference in
Yerevan. In his words, the European Union also says that the
Armenian-Turkish relations must activate. `If European countries
finally turn back from Turkey, it will turn to Russia, as it already
happened during history. If we hypothetically suppose that Russia,
Turkey and Armenia, and probably Iran too, come to a certain agreement
on the solution of conflicts in the region, the EU will have big
problems with energy resources. Of course, it’s theoretically, but in
policy everything is possible and it is a possible scenario,’ Melikian
said, one more time underlining that it is a purely theoretical
supposition.

Alongside he stressed third countries can use the Armenian Genocide
issue, as well as the Nagorno Karabakh settlement. `These two issues
for some reasons are being tied with each other, which Turkey does,
but they are quite different things. The fact of the 1915 Genocide for
Armenians is truth, which is not subject to discussions. Equally is
NKR’s right to independence,’ said the NKR President’s Aid.