Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia: Armenia has never cast doubts
either on fact of Genocide or importance of its international
recognition

2010-03-26 11:49:00

ArmInfo. Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia Arman Kirakosyan has
commented on the statement by Ali Babacan, the ex-foreign minister of
Turkey.

To recall, Babacan has recently declared that in the period when he
headed the Turkish Foreign Ministry Ankara and Yerevan made an
arrangement to discuss the Genocide issue. "I’d not like to believe
that the ex-foreign minister of Turkey could make such a statement. If
he really made such a statement, this at least causes bewilderment,
for I was present at the meetings that resulted in the start and
continuation of the Armenian-Turkish normalization and no arrangements
on the Armenian Genocide were made. Both the president and the foreign
minister of Armenia have repeatedly declared that Armenia has never
cast doubts on the Genocide fact and on the importance of its
international recognition. Armenian Foreign Minister made such
statement yet in 2008 in Istanbul before his meeting with then foreign
minister Babacan. Now any speculations on the given issue are
inexpedient," Arman Kirakosyan said.