TURKEY DOES NOT WANT TO ESTABLISH RELATIONS WITH ARMENIA
armradio.am
16.11.2007 17:23
During today’s parliamentary briefing Chairman of the National
Assemby’s Standing Committee on European Integration Avet Adonts
turned to the statement of the Turkish Prime Minister, who said that
Armenian-Turkish relations cannot improve under the circumstances
when Armenia is exerting pressure on third countries, thus including
the genocide issue in agendas of their parliaments.
"We do not imagine how Armenia can exert pressure on third countries,
e.g. Russia, the United States or France. Giving evaluation to the
genocide is an internal issue of those countries, it is the official
assessment of those countries. This statement proved once again that
the problem is not that Turkey is not ready to establish relations
with Armenia. It simply doesn’t want to. Today’s authorities of Turkey
do not have the wish," the Chairman said.