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Turkish Foreign Minister Amhet Davutoglu, attending the PACE spring session as Chairman of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, answering the question of member of Azerbaijani delegation Rafael Huseynov about construction of airport in Artsakh, said that the Committee of Ministers has not discussed this issue. OSCE Minsk Group currently deals with the issue of airport.

“We can certainly discuss this issue if necessary,” he said. Turkish FM stressed that “Armenia must stop such provocations to accelerate the peaceful talks launched by the Azerbaijani and Armenian Presidents.”

Panorama.am asked Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute Hayk Demoyan to comment upon this issue.

“Before describing Armenia’s actions as provocation in terms of opening the airport and resuming air communication between Armenia and NKR, I would like to ask Turkish FM A. Davutoglu to assess the fact of presence of Azerbaijani army soldiers and officers in the territory of Northern Cyprus occupied by Turkey. Because assassin Ramil Safarov confessed that he had special training in the very secret military base of Turkish Armed Forces in Northern Cyprus where he “was taught to kill using various tools,” Demoyan said.

Commenting upon another remark by Davutoglu about Armenian side’s rejecting the proposal of establishing a joint commission of historians and the necessity of understanding “right” history, the Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute said:

“I would like to believe that one day Ahmet Davutoglu will follow the example of hundreds of Turks and will visit the Armenian Genocide Museum in Yerevan to start just from this museum the revision of much abridged and distorted history of Turkey. Let’s hope that the Minister will be daring enough not to reject our proposal, and for our part, we will prepare all necessary archival materials to give them to the Turkish Minister.”