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    ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER RULES OUT PRECONDITIONS FOR TIES WITH TURKEY

    Mediamax
    April 6 2009
    Armenia

    Yerevan, 6 April: Armenian Foreign Minister Edvard Nalbandyan stated
    that "the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations should have no
    preconditions and it is with this mutual understanding that we have
    been negotiating with the Turkish side".

    Mediamax reports that Armenian Foreign Minister said this commenting on
    the statements of Turkish officials, according to which normalization
    of Armenian-Turkish relations is conditioned by other issues like
    the resolution of the Nagornyy Karabakh problem and the process
    of international recognition of the Armenian genocide [killings of
    Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915].

    "Normalization of relations has no linkage to the resolution of the
    Nagornyy Karabakh problem and has never been a subject of negotiations
    towards the normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations. It has been
    said many times, and I want to stress it again, that the normalization
    of Armenian-Turkish relations can never question the reality of
    the Armenian genocide. Today, dozens of states and international
    organizations have recognized the Armenian genocide, which Armenia
    has welcomed," Edvard Nalbandyan stated.

    The Armenian minister also expressed an opinion that "the statements,
    which put forth preconditions for the normalization of Armenian-Turkish
    relations may be regarded as an attempt to impede the progress reached
    in the negotiations".

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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