TURKISH FM HOPEFUL OBAMA WILL CONSIDER ANKARA’S STANCE ON APRIL 24
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March 29 2010
Armenia
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Turkish Foreign Minister
Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the resolution on recognition of Armenian
Genocide in Ottoman Empire in the course of their phone conversation.
Turkish FM expressed hope that at his regular April 24 speech Barack
Obama will consider Ankara’s stance on the matter. According to him,
third-country-adopted resolutions judging the history, negatively
affects the Armenia-Turkey normalization process.
"The process that will positively affect both Armenia-Turkey relations
and Caucasian region should not suffer for settling internal political
accounts," Davutoglu noted.
"Secretary Clinton stated that she understood Minister Davutoglu’s
concerns, and stressed that the US administration is opposed both to
the Committee’s decision and to further action on it in the US House
of Representatives," reads the statement by Turkish Foreign Ministry.
March 4, the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted the
resolution on Armenian Genocide and March 11- the Swedish Parliament.
Turkey recalled its Ambassadors to the U.S and Sweden as a sign
of protest.