RELEASE OF ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER TO BE FIRST STEP FOR REGULATING
BILATERAL RELATIONS: ARMENIA’s AMBASSADOR TO CE
YEREVAN, MAY 27. ARMINFO. Release of Armenian-Turkish border without
preconditions will become the first significant step for regulating
bilateral relations, stated the permanent representative, Armenia’s
ambassador to the Council of Europe Christian Ter-Stepanyan during a
meeting of the CE ministers’ representatives, May 25.
As ARMINFO was informed in the press-service of the State commission
on organization of actions dedicated to the 90th anniversary of
Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey, Ter-Stepanyan in his speech
noted: “Words of Turkish Prime Minister Receip Tayyip Erdogan on
denial of the fact of Armenian Genocide in 1915 in Ottoman Turkey
prove on a long way Turkey should pass to form a democratic society”.
Ter-Stepanyan noted that the accusation of professors of Turkish
universities of treason for their attempt to organize a conference in
Istanbul dedicated to Armenian Genocide despondently proves it.
“It is wrong to think that parliaments of the CE 11 member-countries
recognized Genocide under the pressure”, he noted. In his words,
wishing to access to the EU Erdogan offers to create a commission of
historians when numerous evidences of both historians and diplomats
are quite enough to prove the fact of Genocide. “At the same time, we
think that no discord may justify the closed border and the absence of
diplomatic relations”, Ter-Stepanyan noted. -r-
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress