Today.Az » Politics » Armenian Foreign Minister: "I support discussion of the problem of Garabagh and "genocide" at a conference in Munich"
13 February 2008 [11:17] - Today.Az
Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan considers the fact that the issues, connected with the Garabagh conflict, "Armenians' genocide" and closing of Armenian-Turkish borders, were raised at the Munich conference, to be positive.
"Turkey's Prime Minister Rejep Tayip Erdogan addressing the conference introduced his country as a democratic state, striving for accession to CoE and promoting peace and stability in the region and on the whole. I told him that closed Armenian-Turkish borders can not be the policy of peace-keeping and stability and it is impossible to settle the issue by means of the positive and balanced policy of Turkey on the problems of Garabagh and "Armenians' genocide", Vardan Oskanyan said.
According to him, his question, asked in a form of a small speech, was quite calm and constructive, while Erdogan's reply was not concordant to it.
"Erdogan has demonstrated a standard approach which is not new to us", Oskanyan noted.
It should be noted that Armenia and Turkey to not maintain diplomatic relations and the Armenian-Tyurkish borders were closed in 1993 by Ankara's initiative.
Official Yerevan declares readiness to restore relations with Turkey unconditionally. However, Turkey puts forward a number of provisions for restoration of bilateral relations, in particular, Armenia's rejection of the policy of international recognition of "Armenians' genocide" and concessions in the Garabagh issue.
/Novosti-Armenia/
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