GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA DID NOT COMMENT ON ISSUES OF IMPACT OF GERMAN-TURKISH RELATIONS ON PROMOTION OF GERMANY-ARMENIA RELATIONS

German Ambassador to Armenia Dr. Heike Renate Peitsch did not comment on issues, referring to the impact of the German-Turkish relations on promotion of Germany’s relations with Armenia, Regnum news agency reported. She also refrained from comments on Germany’s position over lifting the blockade of the Armenian-Turkish border and recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey within the context of prospects of Turkey’s accession to the EU, as well as prospects of Bundestag passing a respective resolution taking into account the position of the Democratic and Christian-Socialist Unions of Germany (CDU/CSU). It should be reminded that these “aiming at contributing to rapprochement between Turkey and Armenia, as well as clearing out the share of the German Reich participation in those tragic events” made a proposal in Bundestag “to commemorate the Armenian Genocide victims.”