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    CYPRUS PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS SAYS TURKEY SHOULD RECOGNISE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
    Maria Fili

    Financial Mirror
    July 07, 2009

    President of the Republic of Cyprus Demetris Christofias has reiterated
    that the recognition of the Armenian genocide by Turkey would have
    a liberating effect on Turkey itself and would show that the country
    is on a course of modernisation.

    He added that the Republic of Cyprus will continue to support the
    people of Armenia and the country's government in efforts for the
    recognition of the genocide.

    President Christofias was speaking in Yerevan at the memorial for the
    victims of the genocide, where he laid a wreath. He also placed two
    white carnations at the inextinguishable flame and observed a minute
    of silence, and then planted a tree at the museum of the monument in
    memory of the victims.

    Speaking after the ceremony, President Christofias said it was
    unacceptable that Turkey, which is aspiring to become an EU member
    and wishes to create a modern state, continues to refuse to recognise
    the genocide.

    He noted that Cyprus is continuing its own struggle to reunite the
    island, which has been divided since the 1974 Turkish invasion, and
    wishes to cultivate good neighbourly relations with Turkey, which
    should modernise its home and foreign policy in order to join the EU.

    President Christofias also signed the book of condolences at
    the memorial, in which he wrote that the condemnation of the
    Armenian genocide was a duty of the modern world in its whole
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