YEREVAN TO REPLY TO ERDOGAN’S LETTER
AZG Armenian Daily #070, 20/04/2005
Armenian Genocide
Press secretary of RA President, Viktor Soghomonian, informed daily Azg
that Yerevan will soon reply to Turkish prime minister’s letter. “We
received the letter on Saturday and will reply some day soon”,
Soghomonian said.
Turkish MP Recep Tayyip Erdogan applied to President Robert Kocharian
on April 13 with a suggestion to set a commission combined of Armenian
and Turkish parliamentarians to study historic facts of the Armenian
Genocide.
“If Armenia wants normal relations with Turkey then Kocharian will
reply to Erdogan’s appeal”, Turkish foreign minister Abdullah Gul
said during a special session at the parliament.
The Turkish press hurried to inform the next day that Kocharian turned
Erdogan’s offer down. The New York Times informed on April 17 that
high-ranking Armenian officials rebuffed the offer.
We can expect that Armenia, in the person of Robert Kocharian or Vartan
Oskanian, will indirectly answer Ankara’s offer at the conference on
Armenian Genocide on April 20-21.