Trend, Azerbaijan
April 24 2010

Turkish ambassador to Azerbaijan does not believe Obama will pronounce
words "Armenian genocide"
24.04.2010 17:05
Azerbaijan, Baku, April 24 /Trend, M.Aliyev/

Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan does not believe that the U.S.
President Barack Obama will pronounce the words "Armenian genocide".

"President Obama’s pronouncing these words does not conform to U.S.
interests, it would bring harms to the U.S., from this point of view,
I do not believe it," Turkish Ambassador to Azerbaijan Hulusi Kilic
told reporters on April 24.

Every year on April 24, U.S. President addresses the nation on the
false "Armenian genocide".

Armenia claims that the Ottoman Empire committed "genocide" against
Armenians living in Anatolia in 1915. Making greater efforts to
promote the issue internationally, Armenians have achieved its
recognition by parliaments in some countries

If Obama pronounces the word "genocide", then he makes a big mistake,
said deputy chairman and executive secretary of the ruling New
Azerbaijan Party (NAP) Ali Ahmedov. "I think this will enter the
history as a mistake made in the policy by the president," he said.

"But I do not believe that any word, phrase used by the U.S. President
would lead to a change in the situation in our region," said Ahmedov.

"In our region there is an aggression against Azerbaijan, and if there
is a reality to be changed, it is this. If Obama makes such a mistake,
it means that the removal of this injustice has not found its
reflection in the policies of the U.S. One word, used by the President
of the United States, can not exert influence on the policies pursued
by such a great state like Turkey," he said.