SWEDISH PM PHONES ERDOGAN

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March 15 2010
Azerbaijan

Fredrik Reinfeldt Fredrik Reinfeldt has called his Turkish counterpart,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to convey his regret at the Swedish parliament’s
genocide resolution.

Reinfeldt said that the Swedish government did not share the
decision taken by parliament and would never allow the resolution
to negatively affect relations between the two countries. He said
Sweden would continue to support Turkey in all fields including its
EU membership process.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his part said that parliaments
could not rebuild history and recalled that Turkey had opened its
archives to all historians, scholars and researchers.

Erdogan said that these kinds of political initiatives were nurtured
with ignorance and prejudice and they would impede historical and
scientific research as well as Turkey’s multi-dimensional goodwill
efforts for regional peace.

Erdogan asked the Swedish government to take steps that could
compensate for the resolution.

The Swedish parliament passed a resolution on Thursday describing the
mass killings of Armenians and other Christian minorities in modern
Turkey at the end of World War I as ‘genocide’.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress