"BORDER WITH ARMENIA WILL BE OPENED AFTER LOCAL ELECTIONS"

AZG DAILY
18-03-2009

Armenia-Turkey

"Border with Armenia will be opened after local elections", member
of Turkish opposition Republican People’s Party, MP Shukryu Elekdagh
announced, according to Turkish Sabah daily.

Member of Turkish leading party, MP Nursuna Memejan refuted the
announcement.

To recall, the Turkish Parliament recently sent a delegation to
the United States. The delegation embraced members of both leading
and opposition parties. The delegation members met with several
Congressmen, the representative of the Department of State, as
well as heads of 12 Jewish organizations. Settlement process of
Armenian-Turkish relations was also discussed. The Turkish side
underlined that recognition of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by
the United States would influence negatively on the process started
between the two countries.

According to Noyan Tapan, at the meeting with the Turkish delegation
members, heads of 12 Jewish organizations announced that they would
not help Turkey with the process of preventing adoption of the Armenian
Genocide resolution in the Congress.