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  • Raffi Hovhannisyan: Though Armenia Should Put Preconditions, It's Tu

    RAFFI HOVHANNISYAN: THOUGH ARMENIA SHOULD PUT PRECONDITIONS, IT'S TURKEY THAT DOES IT

    armradio.am
    28.04.2009 15:00

    Success in the reconciliation talks between Turkey and Armenia
    requires both sides to withdraw their preconditions, according to
    Armenia's first foreign minister, former foreign minister of Armenia
    Raffi Hovhannisyan told the Hurriyet Daily News & Economic Review in
    an interview.

    "There is asymmetry. Though in fact Armenia should put preconditions
    [before the reconciliatory talks], it's Turkey that does it. If
    it continues like this, they won't be possible to establish ties,"
    Raffi Hovannisian said.

    "All three presidents of Armenia deserve criticism of their human
    rights and democratic records but all of them attached great importance
    to relations with Turkey and reiterated their calls for dialogue
    without any precondition," he said.

    "The historians should not study whether it was genocide or not. It's
    very obvious that what happened in 1915 constitutes genocide. Thus
    they should study how it occurred," he said.

    "My roots are in Ordu, a coastal town [in Turkey] near the Black
    Sea. Many members of our family were the victims of genocide. But it
    was a Turkish family who saved my mother. We cannot blame all Turkish
    people for what happened at that time," Hovannisian said.
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