ARMENIA WON’T STOP EFFORTS TO GET GENOCIDE RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONALLY – FOREIGN MINISTER

Interfax
Nov 26 2008
Russia

YEREVAN. Nov 25 (Interfax) – Armenia will never abandon efforts to
get the 1915 killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire recognized
internationally as genocide, Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard
Nalbandian said in Istanbul. "Armenia has never said and it will
never say that it will drop the process of international recognition
of the genocide of Armenians," Armenian Foreign Ministry spokesman
Tigran Balaian told Interfax, quoting Nalbandian.

The Armenian foreign minister also said, Balaian continued, that,
"Yerevan will never demand that the Armenian diaspora halt efforts
to achieve the international recognition of the genocide."

The Armenia leadership wants to continue the talks on settling
relations with Ankara, he said.

Turkish mass media, meanwhile, alleged on Tuesday, citing the Armenian
foreign minister, that "Armenia’s position has changed and Yerevan has
a normal attitude to Turkey’s proposal to form a friendly bilateral
commission to investigate the genocide on the basis of historical
evidence."

Nalbandian was in Istanbul on a one-day visit within the framework
of Armenia’s current presidency of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation
Organization.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress