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4 March 2002 - 18:53 AMT

YEREVAN NOT TO INSIST ON RECALL OF ISRAELI AMBASSADOR IN ARMENIA

One should not generate tension regarding the recent statements of Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Israel in the Republic of Armenian Rivka Kohen that “there is a significant difference between the Jewish Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide in 1915,” Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian considers. In his opinion, each side has already expressed what it considered necessary in this regard: the Armenian Foreign Ministry submitted a note of protest and the Israeli Foreign Department answered it. In this regard, official Yerevan does not intend to insist on recall of the Israeli Ambassador from Armenia.