During an official visit to Paris last week, Sarksyan was asked in an interview with Euronews whether he believed that there was any particular reason for the timing of a US House committee’s recognition earlier this month of the killing of Anatolian Armenians during World War I as genocide as it came amid reconciliation efforts between Armenia and Turkey.
“We are currently in discussions with Turkey on the issue of re-establishing our relations. This should be done without any preconditions, and I think that Turkey has no moral right to blame us about anything or to impose any conditions. Re-establishing relations without preconditions means we are not under any obligations to stay away from any of the possible topics,” Sarksyan responded in the interview, the transcript of which is on the Web site of Public Radio of Armenia.
“Let’s say that, by some miracle, the Turkish Parliament ratifies the protocols, the Armenian Parliament does the same, we re-establish our relations and a third country, which is against us re-establishing our relations, on purpose takes up the genocide issue. Will the Turks, therefore, use this as a pretext and break off relations?” Sarksyan added.
