KOCHARIAN REAFFIRMS PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH TURKEY WITHOUT PRECONDITIONS

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Feb 19 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 19, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Armenian President
Robert Kocharian who is in France on a visit declined Turkey’s proposal
to create a joint commission of historians, which was to discuss the
issue of the Genocide, and called Ankara for accepting his proposal
to create an interstate commission in his interview to Figaro French
daily on Monday. "Improval of bilateral relations is the duty of the
governments and not historians. Therefore, we are ready to establish
relations with Turkey without preconditions, to discuss all issues,
including the most delicate ones," Robert Kocharian said.