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SARGSYAN: TURKEY'S BLOCKADE OF ARMENIA SHOULD BE IN SPOTLIGHT OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
YEREVAN, June 4. /ARKA/. Turkey's blockade of Armenia should be in the
spotlight of international organizations, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan said Wednesday after he met with his Swiss counterpart and
the OSCE chairman-in-office Didier Burkhalter in Yerevan.
In his words, it was stressed at the meeting that the
Switzerland-brokered agreements signed by Armenia and Turkey remain
suspended now because Turkey didn't ratify them.
"Any way, we are thankful to Switzerland for its role in this
complicated process, and I am sure that this illegal blockade should
be in the spotlight of international organizations, including OSCE,"
Sargsyan was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying at a joint news
conference.
The Armenian president also thanked Switzerland for the stance taken
on the international recognition of the fact of Armenian Genocide.
"I expressed sincere gratitude on behalf of Armenian people to the
Swiss legislative institution for recognition of the Armenian Genocide
and its determination to defend human values," he said.
Turkey and Armenia have had no diplomatic ties since Armenia became
independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Turkey closed its border
with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for its ally, Azerbaijan,
which had a dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic
Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.
There are several sensitive issues complicating the establishment of
normal relations between the two countries, particularly Ankara's
blatant support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
resolution process and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge the mass
killings of Armenians the Ottoman Empire as genocide. -0----
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From: Baghdasarian
YEREVAN, June 4. /ARKA/. Turkey's blockade of Armenia should be in the
spotlight of international organizations, Armenian President Serzh
Sargsyan said Wednesday after he met with his Swiss counterpart and
the OSCE chairman-in-office Didier Burkhalter in Yerevan.
In his words, it was stressed at the meeting that the
Switzerland-brokered agreements signed by Armenia and Turkey remain
suspended now because Turkey didn't ratify them.
"Any way, we are thankful to Switzerland for its role in this
complicated process, and I am sure that this illegal blockade should
be in the spotlight of international organizations, including OSCE,"
Sargsyan was quoted by Novosti-Armenia as saying at a joint news
conference.
The Armenian president also thanked Switzerland for the stance taken
on the international recognition of the fact of Armenian Genocide.
"I expressed sincere gratitude on behalf of Armenian people to the
Swiss legislative institution for recognition of the Armenian Genocide
and its determination to defend human values," he said.
Turkey and Armenia have had no diplomatic ties since Armenia became
independent from the Soviet Union in 1991. Turkey closed its border
with Armenia in 1993 in a show of support for its ally, Azerbaijan,
which had a dispute with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, the ethnic
Armenian enclave of Azerbaijan.
There are several sensitive issues complicating the establishment of
normal relations between the two countries, particularly Ankara's
blatant support of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
resolution process and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge the mass
killings of Armenians the Ottoman Empire as genocide. -0----
- See more at:
http://arka.am/en/news/politics/sargsyan_turkey_s_blockade_of_armenia_should_be_in _spotlight_of_international_organizations/#sthash.gOzJzGas.dpuf
From: Baghdasarian