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    The Gazette (Montreal)
    October 19, 2006 Thursday
    Final Edition

    Armenian lauds Canada's stance

    OTTAWA

    Countries such as Canada and France are standing up to Turkey's
    political "blackmail" through their recent decisions to recognize the
    genocide of the Armenian people, Armenia's foreign minister said
    yesterday.

    Vartan Oskanian also said if Turkey has any hope of attaining its
    goal of joining the European Union, it too would have to acknowledge
    the past violence of Ottoman Turks.

    Oskanian offered that provocative assessment yesterday in an
    interview before his meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Peter
    MacKay in Ottawa.

    The meeting was the first high-level interaction between Armenia and
    Canada since the Harper government recognized as genocide the deaths
    of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 during the bloody demise of the
    Ottoman Empire, a decision that has angered Turkey.

    Turkey's Canadian embassy decided not to talk about Oskanian's visit.

    Canada's Foreign Affairs Department would not confirm last week he
    was to meet with MacKay even though details of the visit - his stay
    at Rideau Gate, the official government guest house, a lunch with
    three dozen parliamentarians and his meeting with MacKay - were
    disclosed by the Armenian Embassy.
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