Kennedy on Armenian Issue: Unify Your Suggestions

By Suleyman Kurt
Published: Wednesday 04, 2005
zaman.com
The US administration have positively viewed a possible meeting between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Robert Kocharian at the European Council regarding the so-called Armenian genocide allegations on May 16-17 and believe that the different suggestions offered by each party might be evaluated together.

The US Undersecretary of the State Department responsible for European and Eurasian affairs Laura Kennedy said, "Why shouldn't the differing suggestions of Erdogan and Kocharian be evaluated together?" [...].

[...]In the news conference, Kennedy revealed that the process between Turkey and Armenia is "hopeful", and evaluated the possible meeting of Erdogan and Kocharian in Warsaw as a "wonderful thing". While Kennedy did not make any preference between Erdogan's suggestion for the meeting of the historians and Kocharian's suggestion for conducting an intergovernmental commission, she noted, "Why shouldn't the two suggestions be evaluated together?" Kennedy also demanded Turkey re-open the Armenian borders. [...].
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Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears on:http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&trh=20050504&hn=19136Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...].The bold emphasis is mine.