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  • Armenia Halts Ratifying Agreement With Turkey On Improving Ties: Rep

    ARMENIA HALTS RATIFYING AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY ON IMPROVING TIES: REPORT

    People's Daily
    April 22 2010
    China

    The Armenian ruling coalition of three parties in the parliament
    announced Thursday in a statement that they would freeze the
    ratification of an agreement with Turkey on improving relations,
    Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

    The majority of the parliament members are opposed to ratifying the
    landmark accord, said the report.

    Turkey and Armenia have been bogged down in a row over the 1915
    incident, which Armenia says was a genocide. Turkey denies that
    charge and insists the Armenians were victims of widespread chaos and
    governmental breakdown as the 600-year-old Ottoman Empire collapsed
    before modern Turkey was born in 1923.

    The two countries signed last October historic deals on normalizing
    ties and reopening their borders after nearly a century of
    hostilities. The agreements need to be ratified by both countries'
    parliaments before taking effect.

    Turkey and Armenia have no diplomatic or economic ties since Armenia
    declared its independence in 1991. Turkey closed its border with
    Armenia in 1993 to support Azerbaijan, which had a territorial conflict
    with Armenia over the Upper Karabakh region.
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