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ANKARA ENGAGED IN POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT, ARA PAPIAN SAYS
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 16:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia needs diplomatic relations with Turkey,
but Turkey needs them more, leader of Modus Vivendi center, historian
and diplomat Ara Papian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
Ankara engaged in political advertisement and Yerevan helps this
process, according to him.
Yesterday, during a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian, Turkish FM Ali Babacan said Ankara could send an envoy
to Yerevan without establishment of diplomatic relations in exchange
for Armenia's consent to form a commission of historians to study
the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
"It will be nothing but appointment of an ambassador at large. Armenia
has a representative in the BSEC, who can also be named an ambassador
at large," Mr. Papian said. "Establishment of diplomatic relations is
a means of communication. At that, Armenia favors Turkey's ambitions
in the region, for some reason."
"Formation of a commission of historians to study the fact of the
Armenian Genocide is a condition Armenia can never accept. Consent will
mean that Armenia questions this historical fact. Yes, it will be good
to have an open border between Armenia and Turkey but we must never
forget that it was Turkey, who closed the border," Mr. Papian said.
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 16:19 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia needs diplomatic relations with Turkey,
but Turkey needs them more, leader of Modus Vivendi center, historian
and diplomat Ara Papian told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
Ankara engaged in political advertisement and Yerevan helps this
process, according to him.
Yesterday, during a meeting with Armenian Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandian, Turkish FM Ali Babacan said Ankara could send an envoy
to Yerevan without establishment of diplomatic relations in exchange
for Armenia's consent to form a commission of historians to study
the fact of the Armenian Genocide.
"It will be nothing but appointment of an ambassador at large. Armenia
has a representative in the BSEC, who can also be named an ambassador
at large," Mr. Papian said. "Establishment of diplomatic relations is
a means of communication. At that, Armenia favors Turkey's ambitions
in the region, for some reason."
"Formation of a commission of historians to study the fact of the
Armenian Genocide is a condition Armenia can never accept. Consent will
mean that Armenia questions this historical fact. Yes, it will be good
to have an open border between Armenia and Turkey but we must never
forget that it was Turkey, who closed the border," Mr. Papian said.