ARMENIAN OPPOSITION DECRIES "FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY" WITH TURKEY

Mediamax
June 23 2009
Armenia

Yerevan, 23 June: A "football diplomacy", initiated by Armenian
President Serzh Sargsyan to normalize the Armenian-Turkish relations,
has "failed disgracefully," David Shahnazaryan of the Armenian National
Congress (ANC) said in Yerevan today, Mediamax reports.

Obtaining Armenia’s consent to the establishment of a commission of
historians, Ankara, in essence, stepped back from the fulfilment of
the other provisions of the "road-map", and now it tries to bring
up the Karabakh problem for discussion by UN Security Council",
Shahnazaryan said.

Before the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Turkey will not
normalize relations with Armenia and it will hardly step back from
other preconditions, Shahnazaryan said.