Goran Lennmarker: Turkey should have courage to recognize Armenian Genocide

PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey should have the courage to face its past and acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, said Goran Lennmarker, OSCE PA special representative for Nagorno Karabakh.



"Turkey will join the European Union when it meets norms of the organization. Today, Armenia has a historical opportunity to help Turkey that is being transformed into a European state," Mr Lennmarker said at a meeting with RA NA chairman Tigran Torosian.



Stressing the importance of establishment of Armenian-Turkish relations, he said the first move should become opening of the border, what will help Turkey to assert itself as a true European country.



For his part, Mr Torosian reiterated Armenia's readiness to normalize relations without preconditions. "The countries of the region should be interested in cooperation and peace," he said, the RA NA press office reported.