| PACE President thinks to normalize relations with Turkey Armenia has to look forward and not to use the past as a blockade for the future-
Yerevan, April 29. /Mediamax/. To normalize relations with Turkey Armenia has to “look forward and not to use the past as a blockade for the future and to try to find peaceful solutions,” President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Rene van der Linden, said in the exclusive interview with Mediamax.
“The fact that both countries are members of the Council of Europe creates an opportunity that members of Armenian and Turkish parliaments can meet each other, come together and address the problems from both sides. To my mind, if you live in a region and you don’t have real open contacts, trade-economic relations, personal, cultural relations, tourism, then you don’t serve your country for the future. It’s impossible to build a sustainable future in the region where you are isolated from your neighbors. So, I am sure, I said this also when I was in Armenia, that it’s in the great interest of Armenia to look forward and not to use the past as a blockade for the future, and to try to find peaceful solutions.
Of course, if you want to find a solution, you will find it. But you can never find a solution that gives you 100%. There is always a compromise. The other side also has its arguments, and if you stick to your arguments, to your feelings only, and you don’t try to find a solution and take into account also the other’s position, it will be very difficult to find a sustainable, peaceful solution, necessary to build a prosperous future,” PACE President said in the exclusive interview with Mediamax. –0– |
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