FORUM OF ARMENIAN UNIONS OF EUROPE ASSESSES NEGATIVELY ARMENIAN-TURKISH DEVELOPMENTS

NOYAN TAPAN
MARCH 23, 2010
YEREVAN

YEREVAN, MARCH 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The Chairman of the Forum of Armenian
Unions of Europe (FAUE) Ashot Grigorian welcomes the proposal on
signing a non-aggression pact with Azerbaijan that Armenian President
Serzh Sargsyan made in an interview with Euronews television. It is
said in the March 23 statement of the FAUE Chairmanship that in case
of rejection of such a constructive proposal, Azerbaijani leadership
will bear full responsibility for any complications related to the
Artsakh problem.

The FAUE applied to the heads of the countries – the OSCE Minsk
Group co-chairs with the request to watch closely the events to
follow that proposal. At the same time, FAUE assesses negatively
the Armenian-Turkish developments and considers the Turkish side
responsible for them, expressing a negative opinion of Prime Minister
Erdogan’s statement about (a hundred thousand) illegal Armenian
emigrants in Turkey. The FAUE calls on all Armenian emigrants residing
in Turkey to leave this country within a short period – in response
to the authorities’ steps reminiscent of the Ottoman times.