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YEREVAN. – If Turkey truly, genuinely wishes to help the Karabakh process, it should stay as far away from that process as possible, Armenian FM Edward Nalbandian said during his interview with television stations.    

With regard to the observation that Turkish FM Ahmet Davutoglu had said that following the French Senate’s passing of the bill that criminalizes the denial of genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, France is no longer an impartial country in the OSCE Minsk Group, and therefore had suggested that Turkey should likewise become a mediating country in the Karabakh peace talks, Armenia’s FM said: “If Turkey truly, genuinely wishes to help this process, it should stay as far away from this process as possible. I do not think it is Turkey which decides the issue of those formats. I should note that Azerbaijan’s president, together with Armenia’s president, said in Sochi [Russia] that the presidents expressed a hope that France, Russia, and the United States would continue their mediation as [Minsk Group] Co-Chairs.”          

And concerning Davutoglu’s statement that French President Nicolas Sarkozy stayed in Armenia for two days, whereas a mere three hours in Azerbaijan, Nalbandian said: “Perhaps he is more concerned that Sarkozy was in Turkey for a few hours.”  

And reflecting on the Turkish FM’s statement that France is no longer neutral following the French Senate’s decision, Edward Nalbandian stated: “The bill is not directed against a specific country. And that exaggerated reaction comes to prove yet again the importance and necessity of the law adopted in France. If this denialist Turkish policy further exacerbates, these types of decisions will be adopted by other countries, too. If Turkey says the Armenian Genocide is the view of the Armenian side alone, how can someone say that the Holocaust is the view of the Jews alone. This view is also held by more than a dozen European countries, and more than twenty countries and international organizations, which have recognized the [Armenian] Genocide. Even the overwhelming majority of those who vote, or speak, against the Armenian Genocide’s recognition, state that this was genocide. Turkey says otherwise and [thus] puts itself into a trap.”

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