TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO GEORGIA AVOIDED MEETING ARMENIAN STUDENTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
06.10.2009 21:56 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian students, members of Forum of European
Students (AEGEE) were scheduled to meet with Turkey’s Ambassador to
Georgia Levent Murat Burhan on Tuesday to discuss Armenian-Turkish
relations, a PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent reported from Tbilisi.

However, the students were told that the meeting should be postponed to
the next day "over the heavy schedule of the Ambassador." On October 3,
the students met an Embassy official of Georgian nationality. Asked
why the Ambassador did not appear, he said that "there were problems
with the schedule." As to his personal opinion, he said "Georgia
wouldn’t like the border to open."

Later, one of the organizers of the meeting informed that according
to a secret order, Turkish officials are prohibited from discussing
Armenian-Turkish relations.