TURKEY OBSTRUCTING NORMALIZATION PROCESS WITH ARMENIA

Interfax
March 16 2010
Russia

Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan has criticized authorities
in Ankara for saying that recognition of the Armenian Genocide is
hampering the Turkish-Armenian reconciliation process.

"Turkey’s groundless claims that Armenian Genocide resolution
currently being debated and adopted in the United States House of
Representatives, the Parliament of Sweden and other countries could
harm the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations is just a shield
aimed at covering up the fact that Turkey itself spares no efforts
to make preconditions that create difficulties and obstacles in the
normalization process," he said.

"The measures being taken by this country call into question the
meaning of the term ‘sensible timeframe’," the Armenian foreign
minister said.

Nalbandyan said he hoped that the Turkish authorities would realize
the gravity of the consequences their continuing policy could entail.