TURKEY CONTINUES TO LOBBY IN USA AGAINST ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BILL

Anatolia News Agency, Turkey
March 21 2007

WASHINGTON D.C. (A.A) -21.03.2007 -"The climate is better when compared
with two months ago, but this matter has not been put aside yet,"
said Arzuhan Dogan Yalcindag, the Chairperson of the Executive Board
of Turkish Industrialists’ & Businessmen’s Association (TUSIAD)
when commenting on the bill on the so-called Armenian genocide,
submitted to the US Congress.

In a press conference in Washington D.C., after lobbying against
the bill, Yalcindag noted that recent initiatives of Turkey have
been effective.

Yalcindag said that they met executives of the US Department of State
and two think-tank organizations, and told them that this matter
should be left to historians.

Qualifying the bill as "a black cloud" on Turkish-American relations,
Yalcindag said that these dark clouds should be dispersed in order
to enhance Turkish-Armenian relations.

"We have seen that they can understand us and perceive our
sensitivities better," she stated.

-ECONOMIC RELATIONS-On the other hand, Yalcindag recalled that
the TUSIAD delegation also had meetings with the executives of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C, and said that
the IMF drew attention to inflation in Turkey.

"Reaching the target set in the fight against inflation requires a
firm monetary and budgetary policy. We share these views," she noted.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress