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ARMENIAN PRESIDENT WITHDRAWS PROTOCOLS ON DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH TURKEY FROM PARLIAMENT
Focus News, Bulgaria
Feb 16 2015
16 February 2015 | 16:36 | FOCUS News Agency
Yerevan. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Monday decided to
withdraw from the country's parliament protocols aimed at establishing
diplomatic ties with Turkey, TASS reported.
Sarksyan notified Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan of the decision,
the president's administration said.
The protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations and
development of bilateral relations were earlier submitted to Armenia's
National Assembly for ratification.
The relations of the two countries have been overshaddowed by Turkey's
refusal to recognize the 1915 genocide that took away the lives
of 1.5 million people. The first genocide of the 20th century has
been recognized and condemned by a number of states. International
recognition and condemnation of the 1915 genocide that took away the
lives of 1.5 million people is a priority of Armenia's foreign policy,
since its authorities believe that a policy of this kind prevents
crimes against humanity.
The Turkish government refuses to admit the Ottoman Empire's
wrongdoings and sizes them up as legitimate actions towards the
Armenian population of the empire, which sympathized with and supported
Russia amid the flaring World War I.
Armenia and Turkey, which have a 330-kilometers-long common border,
have not established diplomatic relations to date.
http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2015/02/16/363424/armenian-president-withdraws-protocols-on-diplomatic-ties-with-turkey-from-parliament.html
From: Baghdasarian
Focus News, Bulgaria
Feb 16 2015
16 February 2015 | 16:36 | FOCUS News Agency
Yerevan. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on Monday decided to
withdraw from the country's parliament protocols aimed at establishing
diplomatic ties with Turkey, TASS reported.
Sarksyan notified Parliament Speaker Galust Sahakyan of the decision,
the president's administration said.
The protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations and
development of bilateral relations were earlier submitted to Armenia's
National Assembly for ratification.
The relations of the two countries have been overshaddowed by Turkey's
refusal to recognize the 1915 genocide that took away the lives
of 1.5 million people. The first genocide of the 20th century has
been recognized and condemned by a number of states. International
recognition and condemnation of the 1915 genocide that took away the
lives of 1.5 million people is a priority of Armenia's foreign policy,
since its authorities believe that a policy of this kind prevents
crimes against humanity.
The Turkish government refuses to admit the Ottoman Empire's
wrongdoings and sizes them up as legitimate actions towards the
Armenian population of the empire, which sympathized with and supported
Russia amid the flaring World War I.
Armenia and Turkey, which have a 330-kilometers-long common border,
have not established diplomatic relations to date.
http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2015/02/16/363424/armenian-president-withdraws-protocols-on-diplomatic-ties-with-turkey-from-parliament.html
From: Baghdasarian