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OFFICIAL SLAMS AZERBAIJAN, TURKEY OVER "ANTI-ARMENIAN PROPAGANDA"
Public Television of Armenia
March 28 2012
[translated from Armenian]
An Armenian official has slammed Azerbaijan and Turkey for what he
described as "cheap anti-Armenian propaganda" voiced from the platform
of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.
"The impression is that they [Azerbaijan and Turkey] understand that
no-one is listening to them and everything that is being said is,
first of all, said for internal consumption, for internal audience,
or for each other," Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan
said in an interview with the Armenian Public TV on 28 March.
Kocharyan said that Turkey had been repeatedly told not to interfere
in the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagornyy
Karabakh if it wanted to see some progress in the issue.
"Turkey's interference in this process, its attempts to make the
normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations dependent on progress in
the settlement of the Karabakh conflict only wrecks this process and
makes Baku's stance on it even harsher," Kocharyan said.
The deputy minister criticized Azerbaijan for becoming the bearer of
"anti- Armenian and misanthrope ideology" of the Ottoman Empire in
the Karabakh issue, which also reflected on its struggle against the
recognition of the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in
1915 as genocide.
"Thus, if Turkey wants to see progress in this [Karabakh] issue and
cooperation in the region, it must, at least, give up its policy
of denying the Armenian genocide, and it would be even better if
it recognized [the genocide]. It would be a serious signal for
Azerbaijan," Kocharyan said.
The official also considered as inadmissible Azerbaijan and Turkey's
policy on "discrediting" the activity of the co-chairmen of the OSCE
Minsk Group, which mediates a peaceful solution to the Karabakh
conflict. Kocharyan said that the reason for the failure of the
Karabakh talks was Azerbaijan's stance over the issue rather than the
"ineffective" activity of the Minsk Group, as Azerbaijan was trying
to describe it.
"The main reason, culprit of the preservation of the status quo
[in Karabakh issue] is Azerbaijan with its destructive policy,"
Kocharyan said.
Public Television of Armenia
March 28 2012
[translated from Armenian]
An Armenian official has slammed Azerbaijan and Turkey for what he
described as "cheap anti-Armenian propaganda" voiced from the platform
of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit.
"The impression is that they [Azerbaijan and Turkey] understand that
no-one is listening to them and everything that is being said is,
first of all, said for internal consumption, for internal audience,
or for each other," Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Shavarsh Kocharyan
said in an interview with the Armenian Public TV on 28 March.
Kocharyan said that Turkey had been repeatedly told not to interfere
in the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagornyy
Karabakh if it wanted to see some progress in the issue.
"Turkey's interference in this process, its attempts to make the
normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations dependent on progress in
the settlement of the Karabakh conflict only wrecks this process and
makes Baku's stance on it even harsher," Kocharyan said.
The deputy minister criticized Azerbaijan for becoming the bearer of
"anti- Armenian and misanthrope ideology" of the Ottoman Empire in
the Karabakh issue, which also reflected on its struggle against the
recognition of the killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in
1915 as genocide.
"Thus, if Turkey wants to see progress in this [Karabakh] issue and
cooperation in the region, it must, at least, give up its policy
of denying the Armenian genocide, and it would be even better if
it recognized [the genocide]. It would be a serious signal for
Azerbaijan," Kocharyan said.
The official also considered as inadmissible Azerbaijan and Turkey's
policy on "discrediting" the activity of the co-chairmen of the OSCE
Minsk Group, which mediates a peaceful solution to the Karabakh
conflict. Kocharyan said that the reason for the failure of the
Karabakh talks was Azerbaijan's stance over the issue rather than the
"ineffective" activity of the Minsk Group, as Azerbaijan was trying
to describe it.
"The main reason, culprit of the preservation of the status quo
[in Karabakh issue] is Azerbaijan with its destructive policy,"
Kocharyan said.