ARA PAPIAN SENDS AN OPEN LETTER TO TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER

PanARMENIAN.Net
24.10.2009 13:21 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The historian, diplomat and the head of the Modus
Vivendi Center Ara Papian , has sent an open letter to the Turkish
foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in which he criticized the recent
statement of the Turkish foreign minister in the Turkish Parliament.

According to Ara Papian, Ahmet Davutoglu by his statements in the
Turkish Parliament tries to pass the desirable for reality.

Mr. Papian paid particular attention to the statements regarding
the recognition of existing borders between Turkey and Armenia,
saying that the only international document by which the border may
be recognized – is an arbitral award of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson,
adopted November 22, 1920.

He also noted that Armenia cannot recognize the current
Armenian-Turkish border by the Treaty of Kars, since in the time f
signing of this document the Republic of Armenia did not exist.

"It’s amazing that you are talking about "occupation", when your
country has occupied 37 per cent of the territory of Cyprus and for
already nine decades occupied three-quarters of my country," Ara Papian
said in his address. "Armenia is ready to cooperate, but Turkey will
achieve nothing through its pressure," Ara Papian emphasized.