November 11, 2004 - 17:46 AMT
TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTRY: IDEAS OF GENOCIDE STILL ON YEREVAN FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA
Turkey has not received any documents testifying that the ideas of the Genocide were excluded from the agenda of the Armenian foreign policy, consequently one cannot speak of any changes in Yerevan's policy on the Genocide issue, Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Namik Tan stated during a press conference. As Milliyet Turkish newspaper writes, he pointed out to the fact that despite the information that appeared in the press, official Yerevan has not changed its stand. To remind, when replying to the question why the budget project for year 2005 does not include allocation of funds for carrying out the policy of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide Hamlet Gasparian, the Press sercretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry stated that Yerevan policy on the issue of the internnational recognition of the Armenian Genocide has unregone no changes. Besides, according to him, the issue of the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is still on the agenda of official Yerevan and cannot be put in the budget or any fiscal document.