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13 July 2005 - 03:57 AMT

TURKISH PRIME: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION NOT URGENT PROBLEM

“Armenia should withdraw its troops from the seized territories of Nagorno Karabakh and return them to Azerbaijan”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated at the international conference initiated by the World Affairs Council of Northern Carolina. When touching upon the Armenian-Turkish relations he said that the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the parliaments of third states does not solve the problem of the Armenian-Turkish relations. Recep Tayyip Erdogan called upon Armenia not to “use common past for stirring up enmity.” “There are more important problems to be settled first of all”, he stated.