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SARKISIAN REAFFIRMS ARMENIAN POLICY ON TURKEY

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  Armenia stands ready to normalize relations with Turkey without any preconditions while continuing to strive for international recognition of the 1915 mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide, President Serzh Sarkisian said on Thursday. “The issue of international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide is a legitimate and inevitable part of Armenia’s foreign policy agenda,” Sarkisian said in a written address to the nation dedicated to the 93rd anniversary of the tragedy. “As the homeland of all Armenians, Armenia must continue its efforts at restoration of historical justice with multiplied vigor.” “Our aims have nothing to do with vengeance and enmity,” added Sarkisian. “While keeping alive the holy memory of the innocent victims, we are ready to establish normal relations with Turkey without any preconditions as early as tomorrow.” Sarkisian’s predecessor, Robert Kocharian, adhered to this policy throughout his ten-year presidency. Turkey has long made the normalization of bilateral ties conditional on an end to the Armenian campaign for genocide recognition and a resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict acceptable to Azerbaijan. Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said on Monday that he has sent a letter to his newly appointed Armenian counterpart Eduard Nalbandian saying that his government wants to start “dialogue” with the Sarkisian administration. But he would not say whether Turkey is ready to reconsider its preconditions for establishing diplomat relations and opening its border with Armenia. (Photolur photo: Sarkisian lays a wreathe at the genocide memorial in Yerevan.)

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• 775  Battle of Ardzni (Bagrevand).
• 1877  Tsar Alexander the Second starts the Russian-Turkish War in the Balkans and on the territory of ancient Armenia. The war ended with the victory of Russia.
• 1910  Death of Armenian writer Victoria Azanoor (Pompili). She wrote in Italian. Her books were translated into Armenian by Father Arsen Ghazikian.
• 1915  The arrest, exile and murder of the Armenian intellectuals (about 800) of Constantinople. The Turks start the implementation of their state plan for the Armenian Genocide. About one million Armenians are killed.
• 1937  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia decides to dissolve the Committee of the Transcaucasian Countries.
• 1965  The Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide took place in about 25 countries out of respect for the memory of the innocent victims. A monument was unveiled in the Main Cathedral of Echmiadsin. The monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Montebello, California.
• 1968  The World Congress of Peace Movements, with the participation of organizations from 64 countries and of 16 international organizations, commemorated the Armenian Genocide.
• 1973  A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Marseilles, France.
• 1975  Opening of monuments commemorating the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. They were in Bikfaya (Lebanon), Athens (Greece) and Milan (Italy).
• 1978  A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Lyon, France.
• 1984  A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was placed in Alfortville, near Paris.
• 1987  An Armenian stone-cross dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Stuttgart, Germany.
• 1989  A monument dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was unveiled in Sydney, Australia.
• 1990  President Bush issued a news release calling on all Americans to join with Armenians on April 24 in commemorating "the more than a million Armenian people who were victims".
• 1994  President Clinton issued a news release on April 24, to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915.

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