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WESTERN ARMENIA – ON TURKEY’S TERRITORY

Politics

The majority of the 15 delegates, who registered for delivering speeches at the debate on constitutional reform in Armenia, were Azeris and Turks.

Member of Turkish delegation Murat Mercan turned the discussion of the constitutional reform into the debate on the Armenian-Turkish relations and the fate of Western Armenia. “Western Armenia has nothing to do with Armenia, it is on Turkey’s territory. This fact should be fixed in the Armenian constitution and the Armenian state borders should be drawn according to international agreements.”

In response head of the Armenian delegation Tigran Torosyan said that the fact that western Armenia is on the territory of Turkey presently proves that the Armenian Genocide was perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire, that is on the territory of today’s Turkey.

Reminding that the Genocide issue has nothing in common with the constitutional amendments Tigran Torosyan said, “I hope that in 2006 we will congratulate each other with the successful completion of constitutional reform corresponding to all democratic standards.”