"Turkey is not a country that would say 'yes' to every thing imposed before it, just to become an EU member," Egemen Bagis said.

Arax left Los Angeles Times in 2007 after the paper's managing editor decided to censor his story on the denial of the Armenian Genocide.

''U.S. can help Armenia and Turkey work together to develop a common future of peace, security, and prosperity and to come to terms with their shared past,'' James Jeffrey said.

Ashot Melkonyan: Armenia has to keep possibly good relations with Georgia

Suren Surenyants: Levon Ter-Petrosyan returned in politics to clean "Augean stables."

Raffi Hovhannesyan: Armenian authorities neglect RA national interests while trying to normalize Armenian- Turkish ties

Ankara believes that U.S. President Obama will respect Turkey's concerns over his speech to be delivered on April 24

Bayer: Nor should gas from Iran be excluded, considering the slowly changing relationship between the country and the US

"Caucasus stability and cooperation platform, which Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan presented after Georgian clashes, may be implemented," Oskanian said.

The year 2009 will be celebrated under the motto "Heritage and Science"