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10 May 2005 - 08:24 AMT

KOCHARIAN AND ERDOGAN SHOOK HANDS IN MOSCOW, BUT DID NOT TALK

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed dissatisfaction to the Presidents of Russia and Poland Vladimir Putin and Alexander Kwasniewski over the stand of the Parliaments of those countries over the issue of the Armenian Genocide. This was done in Moscow, where Erdogan took part in celebrities over the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Turkish Premier and the Armenian President “shook hand in Moscow, however they did not talk.” As it is known earlier Turkish diplomatic sources did not rule out a Kocharian-Erdogan meeting either in Moscow on 9 May or in Warsaw within the Council of Europe summit May 15-16. However, as stated by Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian, there was no specific arrangement on the meeting of the Armenian and Turkish leaders, reported Regnum news agency.