EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT FOLLOWS PRO-TURKISH POLICY

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.10.2007 16:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Armenian Federation (EAFJD) states
that the European Parliament is following a pro-Turkish policy,
the EAFJD chairperson, Hilda Tchoboian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.

"The European Parliament Foreign Relations Committee did not pass
the resolution on the EU-Turkey relations. Calls to recognize the
Armenian Genocide and put an end to the policy of denial don’t find
understanding among European parliamentarians. The topic was not
discussed at the October 3 session.

Actually, the reports prepared by Ria Oomen-Ruijten was not
amended. The final voting will be held October 24. We are planning
to issue objections to the resolution. The EAFJD will sit October
15-16 to work out a statement referring both to Hay Dat and Armenia’s
foreign policy.

As reported earlier, European Parliament deputies proposed
236 amendments aimed at improving the draft resolution on the
EU-Turkey Relations. The draft text of this document, prepared by
Mrs. Oomen-Ruijten (Christian-democrats, Netherlands), came under
criticism – including within her own political party, the EPP –
because of its laconic wording that evaded most of the key issues:
the sociocultural rights of Kurds, the occupation of Cyprus, the
EU’s absorption capacity and the enduring racist forces in the upper
echelons of the Turkish government