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    RAFFI HOVHANNISIAN: ARMENIAN-TURKISH "FOOTBALL DIPLOMACY" IS NOT A CONTINUATION OF CHINESE-AMERICAN "PING-PONG PRECEDENT"

    Noyan Tapan
    April 22, 2009
    Yerevan

    The leader of the "Heritage" party Raffi Hovhannissian presented his
    evaluation of so called Armenian-Turkish football diplomacy during
    the press-conference on April 17 in Hayastsk club.

    Mr.Hovhannissian also made some parallels with the Chinese-American
    "Ping-Pong" diplomacy. According to him, every historical phase has
    its own logic and there is no need to cherish an illusion state that
    this is a continuation of the Chinese-American precedent. At least
    it was symmetry there, and two super-powers used sports to gradually
    solve their problems.

    Meanwhile we have asymmetry, the leader of the "Heritage" party
    said. One side, a dominion, deprived of its compatriots, and the other
    side officially continuing the policy of denial. "We ought to restore
    the symmetry. Either we move forward without any precondition, as three
    presidencies of Armenia suggested with circumspection. Either it is
    time for everybody to reveal their preconditions and their national
    questions in the matter of normalization of the Armenian-Turkish
    relations", told Raffi Hovhannissian, the leader of the opposition
    "Heritage" party, deputy of the parliament.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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