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    Turkey not against officials joining Armenian genocide issue commission

    Anatolia news agency
    4 May 05

    Ankara, 4 May: As brainstorming continued on the joint commission
    thought to be formed by Turkey and Armenia to examine so-called
    Armenian genocide allegations, Ankara is not against participation
    of officials in this commission, sources said on Wednesday [4 May].

    Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has proposed Armenian
    President Robert Kocharyan to set up a joint commission comprised
    of Turkish and Armenian historians and experts to examine Turkish,
    Armenian and third countries' archives regarding the so-called Armenian
    genocide claims.

    Kocharyan responded to this proposal saying that this commission
    should be intergovernmental.

    Diplomatic sources in Ankara are not against the statement made
    by Laura Kennedy, the US State Department assistant secretary for
    European and Eurasian Affairs, that these two proposals could be
    realized together.

    Sources told AA [Anatolia] correspondent that Turkey did not think
    that the commission must be comprised of historians alone when laying
    this proposal down.

    The same sources said that Turkey thought that historians, academicians
    and scientists from France, Germany, Russia, Britain and the United
    States could also participate in this commission as well as those
    from Turkey and Armenia. Also, the same sources noted, the commission
    should also include officials from Turkey and Armenia, and stated that
    two commissions, one comprised of historians and one from officials,
    could be set up.

    The same sources said that the commission to be comprised of officials
    could be at the level of technocrats.
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