Gul Addressing a parliamentary committee on his ministry's 2006 budget
11/15/2005
TurkishPress.com
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday addressing a parliamentary committee during a review of his ministry's 2006 budget
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''we are targeting to create a zone of peace and cooperation in southern Caucasus. However, Armenia is the weakest link of the region. Armenian leadership has not reciprocated our initiatives to improve bilateral relations. Nevertheless, Turkey maintains its efforts to this end and keeps the doors open to dialogue. We wish that the Armenian government display the necessary political will to resolve existing problems with its neighbors. In that case, we will be able to take further steps to normalize bilateral relations.''
Reiterating Turkey's support to efforts to resolve the Upper Karabakh dispute in order to put an end to Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories, Gul said that the Minsk Group recently made certain progress to this end.
Referring to the issue of so-called Armenian genocide, Gul said, ''the Armenian side has been trying to defame our history with baseless allegations. In an effort to enlighten the facts, Turkey proposed Armenia to form a joint commission. However, the Armenian government did not respond in the affirmative.''
Gul called on all relevant countries to support Turkey's proposal instead of making irresponsible decisions on the basis of groundless allegations.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
TurkishPress.com
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said on Tuesday addressing a parliamentary committee during a review of his ministry's 2006 budget
[...]
''we are targeting to create a zone of peace and cooperation in southern Caucasus. However, Armenia is the weakest link of the region. Armenian leadership has not reciprocated our initiatives to improve bilateral relations. Nevertheless, Turkey maintains its efforts to this end and keeps the doors open to dialogue. We wish that the Armenian government display the necessary political will to resolve existing problems with its neighbors. In that case, we will be able to take further steps to normalize bilateral relations.''
Reiterating Turkey's support to efforts to resolve the Upper Karabakh dispute in order to put an end to Armenian occupation of Azerbaijani territories, Gul said that the Minsk Group recently made certain progress to this end.
Referring to the issue of so-called Armenian genocide, Gul said, ''the Armenian side has been trying to defame our history with baseless allegations. In an effort to enlighten the facts, Turkey proposed Armenia to form a joint commission. However, the Armenian government did not respond in the affirmative.''
Gul called on all relevant countries to support Turkey's proposal instead of making irresponsible decisions on the basis of groundless allegations.
Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.
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