TSARUKYAN ANALYZES ARMENIA-TURKEY RELATIONS
News.am
Oct 26 2009
Armenia
The Chairman of the Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan did
not arrive in Bursa on October 14, 2009 as he knew in advance that
Armenian football national team will lose. "I said I am not going,
as wherever I go, we have to win. That’s the point," Tsarukyan stated
at Oct. 26 interview with journalists in RA National Assembly.
Speaking of Armenia-Turkey relations Tsarukyan outlined, "RA President
Serzh Sargsyan, NA Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan and I told everybody
Armenia-Turkey reconciliation is initiated without any preconditions.
If there are preconditions, we will reject. We cannot tarnish
Armenian nations’ reputation. We stated only the establishment of
diplomatic ties, border opening and that’s it." Commenting on the
standpoint that Turkish side speaks of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
as a precondition to Armenia-Turkey rapprochement, Tsarukyan said,
"What the hell…We also say and a half, why don’t you accept ours,
but do theirs? We say relations with no preconditions, and if any-we
will oppose, reject them. This was stated by the RA President and NA
Speaker," Gagik Tsarukyan concluded.