TURKEY WILL OPEN ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER OVER ASPIRATION TO JOIN EU

PanARMENIAN.Net - "Sooner or later, Turkey will have to open the Armenian-Turkish border", National Assembly Vice Speaker Vahan Hovhannisian said Tuesday during his meeting with the participants of the Third Pan-Armenian Youth Jamboree. "Turkey aspires to join the European Union", Hovhannisian said. "Armenia should work to make the border issue raised before Turkey on that country's way to join the EU." He added that the border is open from the Armenian side, and that there is nothing Armenia has to offer to Turkey for the opening of the border. "We cannot give up what Turkey demands. It demands that Armenian forces leave Karabakh. Also, Armenia cannot drop its demand of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. That process is in place even without Armenia's participation. For example, Armenia's role in the recognition of the Genocide by Venezuela was minimum", he said, IA Regnum reports.