Armenian FM: What comes from official Ankara is not promising
Turkey’s failure to take a step and face its own history is incomprehensible, Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan told reporters today at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in capital Yerevan where he joined numerous other top officials to pay tribute to the Armenian Genocide victims.
Asked whether Armenia may start fresh reconciliation talks with Turkey and eventually urge Ankara to reopen the closed border with Armenia, the minister said: “I am sure you hear and follow everything that comes from the official Ankara. Unfortunately, they are not quite promising.”
The minister stressed that prevention of genocides is an international obligation and vowed to continue contributing to the international efforts to develop and strengthen the prevention mechanisms.
Mnatsakanyan noted that Armenia never insisted on recognition of the genocide as a precondition to establish relations with Turkey.
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