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    AZERBAIJAN RESPONDS TO SARKOZY'S ARMENIAN GENOCIDE STATEMENTS

    epress.am
    10.07.2011

    Azerbaijan does not agree with French President Nicolas Sarkozy's
    statements regarding the Armenian Genocide an the opening of the
    Armenia-Turkey border, said head of the public and political department
    of Azerbaijan's presidential administration Ali Hasanov.

    "Each of these issues is a specific aspect of international politics.

    Azerbaijan has always supported Turkey's interests in processes taking
    place in the South Caucasus, as well as in international affairs,"
    he said, reports Baku-based news agency Trend.

    According to Hasanov, Baku doesn't share the French government's
    position, which include Sarkozy's statements on the Armenian Genocide
    and the opening of the Armenia-Turkey borders.

    Recall, Sarkozy urged Turkey on Friday to recognize the First World
    War-era massacres of Armenians as genocide before his term ends in
    May 2012.

    "From 1915 to 2011, it seems to be enough [time] for reflection,"
    Sarkozy told reporters in Yerevan on the second day of his visit
    to Armenia.

    Speaking alongside his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan, Sarkozy
    noted, however, that "it is not up to France to give an ultimatum
    to anyone."

    Sarkozy on Thursday urged Turkey to "revisit its history" over the
    killings of hundreds of thousands of Armenians under the Ottoman
    Empire, calling its refusal to recognize the deaths as genocide
    "unacceptable," AFP reports.

    The French president said that if Turkey did not make this "gesture of
    peace" and "step towards reconciliation," he would consider proposing
    the adoption of a law criminalizing denial of the killings as genocide.

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