PACE President: Every country should accept its own history

ArmRadio.am
31.01.2007 13:00

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe cannot make Turkey
recognize what it refuses from, PACE President Rene van der Linden
told ArmInfo, speaking of the possible deepening of Armenian-Turkish
relations in the light of assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist
Hrant Dink.

Nevertheless, Rene van der Linden noted that it does not mean it is
necessary to refuse from the past. `Every country should accept its
own history,’ said PACE President. He added that Armenia’s borders are
closed, and today it is very important to remember that as a necessity
to take efforts to normalize the relations with the neighbor country.