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    PanArmenian News
    March 15 2005

    ISSUE OF RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT TO BECOME POLITICAL
    CRITERION FOR TURKEY'S ACCESSION TO EU

    15.03.2005 05:47

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ `The issue of recognition of the Armenian Genocide
    will not be a political criterion for Turkey,' head of the
    representation of the European Commission in Turkey Hansjorg
    Kretschmer stated. The demands that the international community
    recognize and condemn the Armenian Genocide, which are on the agenda
    in France, raised the questions on how these demands will tell on
    Turkey's ambitious plans of accession to the EU. Hansjorg Kretschmer
    noted that the decision to support the beginning of talks with Turkey
    on its accession to the EU, passed December 17, 2004, evidences that
    official Ankara `has met the political criteria to a considerable
    degree.'
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