Peaceful Co-Existence of Armenia and Turkey PossibleOctober 16, 2006 - 14:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian and Turkey co-exist in peace, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in an interview with the Armenian Public TV. "Turkey is a big country and our neighbor. We should resign ourselves to the thought that we live next to a nation, whose ancestors perpetrated the Genocide," Oskanian said. In his words, the Armenian Genocide problem should be considered not at historical but at political level. "Taking into account the current political situation within Turkey the proposal of Prime Minister Erdogan on formation of a historical commission is insincere and not serious," the RA FM said. In his words, this proposal was made for a mere PR purpose to show Europe that Turkey is ready to discuss the issue. "If a commission of historians is formed nothing will change. It will consist of Turks denying the Genocide and of Armenians pressing for its recognition," Oskanian underscored. "This issue cannot be considered at historical level with Turks, who themselves politicized the problem," the Minister said. According to him, the response of the Armenian President on formation of an intergovernmental commission is more logical and corresponds to the political reality, reports newsarmenia.ru. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |