Armenia rejects Turkish preconditions
10:46, 31 July 2009
SEVAN. July 31. KAZINFORM Armenia rejects Turkish preconditions linking normalization of bilateral relations to the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan, President Serzh Sargsyan said on Thursday; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.
"We extended a hand to Turkey despite historic problems, in particular, the genocide of Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire," he told young representatives of Armenian Diaspora on Thursday.
"Despite the difficult path we proposed to the Turkish leadership to establish diplomatic relations without any preconditions, to open roads and then discuss the issues we consider necessary," Sargsyan said; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
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