May 3, 2005 - 11:34 AMT
PACE TURKISH DELUSIONS
Turkish MPs have misled over 90 PACE delegates, persuading them to sign a statement addressed to Armenian President Robert Kocharian, stated Vice-Speaker of the Armenian ParliamentTigran Torosian. It should be reminded that the statement in question was sponsored by representatives of Turkey and urged the Armenian leader to accept Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's proposal to form a joint commission of historians to study the fact of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in early past century. In Torosian's words, at the moment Turks were gathering signatures of PACE delegates, Robert Kocharian had already sent a response message to the Turkish Premier and the Turkish parliamentarians did not manage to inform the European MPs about it. It should be reminded that a total of 97 PACE MPs signed the document. Among those, who signed the document are 10 Turks, 10 Russians, 8 Azeris and 4 Georgians, Regnum news agency reported.