TURKEY CRITICIZES ACTIONS OF BELGIUM
Pan Armenian News
17.05.2005 07:53
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ When commenting on the decision of the Belgian
Parliament to establish criminal punishment for denial of the
Armenian Genocide, Turkish PM R. Erdogan said, “I cannot understand
when a country that has nothing in common with the affair passes
such a decision.” “If that decision comes into effect, Turkey will
undertake steps to pass corresponding resolutions regarding the
countries that have really committed genocides in the past,” he
stated when addressing the CoE Summit in Warsaw. As noted by Erdogan,
“the decision on genocide” is a prerogative of local politicians.
At that he noted that that Armenians will not obtain any results
in international recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman
Turkey by means of their lobby. He also noted that the CoE considers
Armenia an “occupier country” and it has to withdraw its troops from
Nagorno Karabakh instead of making ungrounded accusations of other
states. As noted by Erdogan, Turkey has already opened its archives
for historians, lawyers and scholars and wishes that Armenia and other
countries do the same. “Armenia does not wish to establish bilateral
relations,” he emphasized, Regnum news agency reported.