Tweet
EUROPE SUPPORTS TURKEY-ARMENIA NORMALIZATION
12:15, 22 Oct 2014
A member of the E.U.'s delegation to Ankara has said that Europe
has a "strong interest in supporting normalization" between Turkey
and Armenia.
Bela Szombati, a former Hungarian diplomat, was speaking in Ankara
on Tuesday at an event on the Armenia-Turkey 'normalization process'
where he called for civil society groups to engage more in order to
overcome "deadlocked" relations, the Turkish Weekly reports.
The event was part of a program which brings together eight civil
society groups from Armenia and Turkey with the aim of improving
relations between the troubled neighbors.
Szombati, the deputy head of the E.U. delegation to Turkey, said:
"With this project the E.U. aims to support ... the efforts civil
society is making towards the normalization of relations through
enhancing people-to-people contacts, expansive economic business
links, promoting cultural and educational activities and facilitating
dissemination of balanced information."
"It remains that people in each country lack accurate knowledge about
the other," Szombati said.
"Both societies suffer from mistrust and misinformation," he added.
"The E.U. has a strong interest in supporting normalization between
Turkey and Armenia," he said.
Referring to regional tensions, Szombati said: "Progress in
normalization could also have a positive impact on stabilizing the
South Caucasus region and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular."
Progamme communication coordinator, Burcu Becermen from the
Istanbul-based Hrant Dink Foundation, said that the 18-month scheme
started in January 2013 and has a two million euro ($2.5 million)
budget.
Attending the event was the associate director of the Yerevan-based
Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Vazgen Karapetyan, who said that the
group was planning to invite Turkish mainstream media organizations
to cover politically significant events in Armenia.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/10/22/europe-supports-turkey-armenia-normalization/
12:15, 22 Oct 2014
A member of the E.U.'s delegation to Ankara has said that Europe
has a "strong interest in supporting normalization" between Turkey
and Armenia.
Bela Szombati, a former Hungarian diplomat, was speaking in Ankara
on Tuesday at an event on the Armenia-Turkey 'normalization process'
where he called for civil society groups to engage more in order to
overcome "deadlocked" relations, the Turkish Weekly reports.
The event was part of a program which brings together eight civil
society groups from Armenia and Turkey with the aim of improving
relations between the troubled neighbors.
Szombati, the deputy head of the E.U. delegation to Turkey, said:
"With this project the E.U. aims to support ... the efforts civil
society is making towards the normalization of relations through
enhancing people-to-people contacts, expansive economic business
links, promoting cultural and educational activities and facilitating
dissemination of balanced information."
"It remains that people in each country lack accurate knowledge about
the other," Szombati said.
"Both societies suffer from mistrust and misinformation," he added.
"The E.U. has a strong interest in supporting normalization between
Turkey and Armenia," he said.
Referring to regional tensions, Szombati said: "Progress in
normalization could also have a positive impact on stabilizing the
South Caucasus region and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in particular."
Progamme communication coordinator, Burcu Becermen from the
Istanbul-based Hrant Dink Foundation, said that the 18-month scheme
started in January 2013 and has a two million euro ($2.5 million)
budget.
Attending the event was the associate director of the Yerevan-based
Eurasia Partnership Foundation, Vazgen Karapetyan, who said that the
group was planning to invite Turkish mainstream media organizations
to cover politically significant events in Armenia.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/10/22/europe-supports-turkey-armenia-normalization/