PACE President thinks to normalize relations with Turkey Armenia has to
look forward and not to use the past as a blockade for the future
-29.04.06
Yerevan, April 29. /Mediamax/. To normalize relations with Turkey
Armenia
has to “look forward and not to use the past as a blockade for the
future
and to try to find peaceful solutions,” President of the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rene van der Linden, said in
the
exclusive interview with Mediamax.
“The fact that both countries are members of the Council of Europe
creates
an opportunity that members of Armenian and Turkish parliaments can meet
each other, come together and address the problems from both sides. To
my
mind, if you live in a region and you don’t have real open contacts,
trade-economic relations, personal, cultural relations, tourism, then
you
don’t serve your country for the future. It’s impossible to build a
sustainable future in the region where you are isolated from your
neighbors. So, I am sure, I said this also when I was in Armenia, that
it’s in the great interest of Armenia to look forward and not to use the
past as a blockade for the future, and to try to find peaceful
solutions.
Of course, if you want to find a solution, you will find it. But you can
never find a solution that gives you 100%. There is always a compromise.
The other side also has its arguments, and if you stick to your
arguments,
to your feelings only, and you don’t try to find a solution and take
into
account also the other’s position, it will be very difficult to find a
sustainable, peaceful solution, necessary to build a prosperous future,”
PACE President said in the exclusive interview with Mediamax. –0–
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