Yerevan, November 27. ArmInfo. “Acknowledgement of Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire in 1915 is not a precondition for good neighborly relations of Turkey and Armenia”, Vardan Oskanyan, Foreign Minister of Armenia, said at the interview with France-Presse.
Radio Liberty reports that V. Oskanyan is sure that the “interdiction can be overcome by cooperation of Armenian and Turkish people”. He called “dubious” the proposal of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to set up a joint commission of scientists-historians to investigate the events of 1915-1917 in Ottoman Empire. “A joint commission can’t be set up before diplomatic relations between official Ankara and Yerevan are established. The question is a political one and it should be treated accordingly. Turks have never before been so mobilized, on the state level, about the negation policy”, V. Oskanyan pointed out. He added that Turkey’s aggression on Armenian Genocide grows along with its acknowledgement by other countries. He pointed out that French Parliament’s adoption of the law on criminalization of denial of Armenian Genocide was a “definite response on Turkish government’s policy of denial.”
The Minister said that presently only acknowledgement of the Genocide is in the agenda of Armenia’s foreign policy and that there should be no fears about its demand for contribution.
He agreed that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is a serious obstacle in Armenia’s relations with Turkey and that “Ankara’s definite solidarity with Azerbaijan works against Turkey itself because it risks the country’s credibility to take over the role of the East-West bridge.”
Mr. Oskanyan disagreed with correlation of Nagorno-Karabakh and South Cyprus due to that the first appeared in the result of USSR’s collapse and the other – on the UN member-state’s territory. He agreed that both Cyprus and Armenia see obstacles in Turkey’s membership in EU but the two countries do not work against Turkey. “We do have common questions we discuss but we do not unite against anyone”, emphasized Armenian Foreign Minister.
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