NATIONALIST MOVEMENT PARTY REFUSED TO MEET WITH DAVUTOGLU
Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 14 2009
Armenia
Active internal political consultations on the prospects of
Armenian-Turkish normalization are conducted in Turkey this
week. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu intends to hold meetings
with leaders of political forces, including opposition.
Davutoglu, having stated that "the last word in Armenian-Turkish
normalization process would be after Turkish Parliament", had his
first meeting with the Speaker of Turkish Parliament Mehmet Ali
Sahin. He schedules to meet with the leaders of oppositional parties
till September 21, before his visit to New York to take part in the
UN General Assembly session, the Turkish TRT website reports.
Leading oppositional Republican People’s Party agreed to meet with
Davutoglu on September 15, after stating "they will not vote in
the Parliament unless Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani areas
terminates". Nationalist Movement Party refused to meet with the
Foreign Minister. Meetings with Democratic Party and Welfare Party
are scheduled September 15-16. The discussion with Democratic Society
Party was put off till the end of September due to its leader’s
(Ahmet Turk) visit to North Iraq.
Davutoglu will inform the Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish
Parliament of the meeting outcomes, after which the Armenian-Turkish
normalization will be placed on the Parliament agenda.