Genocide not a pre-condition?

The Turkish Daily News reported yesterday that Oskanian had said that 'Genocide' not condition for normal ties with Turkey.

But isn't it Turkey which is imposing the blockade and Turkey which has stated that normalization depends on Armenia ceasing its support of Armenian diaspora efforts aimed at winning international recognition for the alleged genocide.
Maybe he is referring the ending of the conference in Brussels:

An Armenian lobby in Europe argue that recognition of the alleged genocide should be a condition of Turkey's accession into the EU. Backing Armenian claims, Greek Cypriot Parliament Speaker Dimitris Christophias said during a visit to Yerevan that Turkey should recognize the allegations before joining the EU.

In Brussels in the European Parliament, a two-day convention of Armenians living in Europe ended on Tuesday with a statement appealing to EU leaders not to let Turkey join the EU unless it recognized the alleged genocide.

Posted by Matt on October 22, 2004 | TrackBack | Email to a friend