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  • ANKARA: EU calls on Armenians to set up joint committee with Turkey

    NTV MSNBC, Turkey
    April 27 2005

    EU calls on Armenians to set up joint committee with Turkey

    The EP declaration described the years of WWI as a dark period for
    all citizens of the Ottoman Empire.

    NTV-MSNBC

    April 27' Eighty members of the European Parliament have signed a
    declaration calling on the Armenian head of state Robert Kocharyan to
    accept a Turkish proposal to set up a joint committee to discuss
    allegations that the Ottoman empire committed acts of genocide
    against its Armenian citizens.

    Ankara has put forward a proposal that a joint committee of
    historians be established to study the Armenian genocide allegations
    from 90 years ago.
    The EP declaration called for the all the national archives of
    the period of World War I to be opened. It said that this dark period
    was a tragic one for all societies living in the Ottoman Empire.
    The declaration also said that within this dark period that
    people fought against each other, and that there were massacres and
    death caused by diseases and famine.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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