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French Foreign Minister calls on Turkey to "heal the wounds of 1915"
11:47, 13 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. The issue of the Armenian Genocide
is a rather sensitive and complicated problem, which casts a shadow on
the bilateral relations of France and Turkey. As reports "Armenpress"
citing Turkish Today's Zaman periodical, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of France Laurent Fabius made this announcement.
Answering the question that many people in Turkey are criticizing
France for pushing forward the Armenian viewpoint Laurent Fabius
stated: "A lot of people in France find that Turkey wants not to deny,
but to decrease the sizes of the calamity, which the ancestors of our
compatriots of Armenian origin had to face with." Also the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of France touched upon the announcement made by Ahmet
DavutoÃ?Â?lu, which says: "I do not say that nothing happened in 1915."
According to Fabius this is a significant and encouraging step.
Among other things Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Laurent
Fabius stated: "Notwithstanding to my opinion vanishing of the
Armenian civilization in the lands of Anatolia should give Turkey a
rise to contemplations for healing the wounds of 1915."
11:47, 13 December, 2012
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 13, ARMENPRESS. The issue of the Armenian Genocide
is a rather sensitive and complicated problem, which casts a shadow on
the bilateral relations of France and Turkey. As reports "Armenpress"
citing Turkish Today's Zaman periodical, Minister of Foreign Affairs
of France Laurent Fabius made this announcement.
Answering the question that many people in Turkey are criticizing
France for pushing forward the Armenian viewpoint Laurent Fabius
stated: "A lot of people in France find that Turkey wants not to deny,
but to decrease the sizes of the calamity, which the ancestors of our
compatriots of Armenian origin had to face with." Also the Minister of
Foreign Affairs of France touched upon the announcement made by Ahmet
DavutoÃ?Â?lu, which says: "I do not say that nothing happened in 1915."
According to Fabius this is a significant and encouraging step.
Among other things Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Laurent
Fabius stated: "Notwithstanding to my opinion vanishing of the
Armenian civilization in the lands of Anatolia should give Turkey a
rise to contemplations for healing the wounds of 1915."