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"HERITAGE" DISCUSSES WITH LEVON TER-PETROSIAN APPOACHES TO FOREIGN POLICY
Noyan Tapan
Feb 15, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Depsite its statement to back
the candidature of Levon Ter-Petrosian, the "Heritage" party and
L. Ter-Petrosian have not yet agreed on the approaches to Armenian
foreign policy.
The political secretary of the party Vardan Khachatrian announced on
February 15 that issues related to solution of the Artsakh problem
and to establishment of relations with Turkey will be discussed at
a meeting with L. Ter-Petrosian and his supporters to be held on the
same day.
V. Khacahtrain expressed his amazement at the fact that immediately
after the statement to support L. Ter-Petrosian, the press published
Raffi Hovannisian's congratulatory letter sent to Abdullah Gul several
months ago on the occasion of Gul's election as the president of
Turkey. The word "dispossession" was used instead of "genocide"
in that letter. According to V. Khachatrain, it does not mean that
R. Hovannisian is in favor of the word "genocide" going out of
use. In his words, by using the expression "great Armenian homeland
dispossession", R. Hovhanniasian wanted to show that Armenians were
destroyed in their homeland and the destruction of the Armenian
cultural layer still continues.
V. Khachatrain underlined that one of the pivotal problems for
improvement of relations with Turkey is "elimination of corrupted
officialdom or reduction of its number to a minimum in Armenia"
because this is necessary for creation of secure realtions. According
to V. Khachatrian, "Heritage" supports improvement of relations with
Turkey but it takes the view that "harmonization of these relations
requires gradual development".
Noyan Tapan
Feb 15, 2008
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Depsite its statement to back
the candidature of Levon Ter-Petrosian, the "Heritage" party and
L. Ter-Petrosian have not yet agreed on the approaches to Armenian
foreign policy.
The political secretary of the party Vardan Khachatrian announced on
February 15 that issues related to solution of the Artsakh problem
and to establishment of relations with Turkey will be discussed at
a meeting with L. Ter-Petrosian and his supporters to be held on the
same day.
V. Khacahtrain expressed his amazement at the fact that immediately
after the statement to support L. Ter-Petrosian, the press published
Raffi Hovannisian's congratulatory letter sent to Abdullah Gul several
months ago on the occasion of Gul's election as the president of
Turkey. The word "dispossession" was used instead of "genocide"
in that letter. According to V. Khachatrain, it does not mean that
R. Hovannisian is in favor of the word "genocide" going out of
use. In his words, by using the expression "great Armenian homeland
dispossession", R. Hovhanniasian wanted to show that Armenians were
destroyed in their homeland and the destruction of the Armenian
cultural layer still continues.
V. Khachatrain underlined that one of the pivotal problems for
improvement of relations with Turkey is "elimination of corrupted
officialdom or reduction of its number to a minimum in Armenia"
because this is necessary for creation of secure realtions. According
to V. Khachatrian, "Heritage" supports improvement of relations with
Turkey but it takes the view that "harmonization of these relations
requires gradual development".