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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.

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