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    US REPRESENTATIVES 'ASSIST' ARMENIA, TURKEY

    www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=90061&se ctionid=3510203
    Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:48:05 GMT

    A number of US congress members have expressed readiness to 'assist'
    ties between Turkey and Armenia in a bid to reconcile the long
    time foes.

    Some prominent US House members including Representatives Robert
    Wexler, member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ike Skelton,
    chairman of the House Armed Service Committee and Alcee Hastings,
    co-chairperson of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe,
    wrote a letter to the countries' leaders on Monday to demonstrate their
    readiness to re-establish good relations between the two neighbors.

    In the letter to the Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian and his
    Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, the US congress members indicated,
    "It is essential that the building blocks of trust and cooperation
    are established between Armenia and Turkey to heal open wounds, mend
    broken hearts and create a better future for both nations and peoples."

    "As members of Congress who agree that lasting Armenian-Turkish
    rapprochement should be a top priority for the United States,
    please know we are ready to assist your nations' efforts to normalize
    relations and build a better future for generations of Armenians and
    Turks," the letter went on to read.

    The US legislators also noted, "As members of Congress who agree that
    lasting Armenian-Turkish rapprochement should be a top priority for the
    United States, please know we are ready to assist your nations' efforts
    to normalize relations and build a better future for generations of
    Armenians and Turks."

    They have furthermore stressed that the process would be 'difficult
    and at times painful' but hoped that the 'breakthrough would forever
    change the dynamics of the region'.

    Turkey and Armenia have no formal diplomatic relations since Armenians
    accuse the Turks for killing hundreds of thousands of Turkish Armenians
    between 1915 to 1917. Turkey rejects the claims.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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