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[joe]

Going to work today and i couldnt help but wonder why there were so many Armenian flags draped all over Nicosia. If anyone was wondering the same thing, here is why the flags were being displayed.
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http://www.financialmirror.com/more_new ... t=Politics

Armenia president in Cyprus on eve of EU-Turkey report


22/11/2006

The President of Armenia Robert Kocharian arrives late Wednesday for a three-day state visit to Cyprus, the first since the former Soviet republic gained independence 15 years ago.

The visit also coincides with the run-up to Turkey’s EU accession hopes and the obstacles that Ankara is facing, primarily with its denial of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 and refusal to comply with EU protocols to allow the entry of Cypriot vessels at its ports and airports.

The Armenian President, accompanied by Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian and a 30-member delegation, will be welcomed at Larnaca airport by Acting Foreign Minister, Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment Photis Photiou and will begin his official programme on Thursday, with a meeting with President Tassos Papadopoulos at the Presidential Palace.
The official talks will include an agreement on co-operation in combating organized and other forms of crime that will be signed by Cyprus Minister of Justice and Public Order Sophocles Sophocleous and the Minister of Justice of Armenia Davit Harutyunyan.
Kocharian will later meet House President Demetris Christofias, while Foreign Minister George Lillikas will host a lunch in honour of the President of Armenia. After that Kocharian will meet with Archbishop Chrysostomos II and the day will ebd with a state banquet will be hosted by President Papadopoulos.

Ambassador Vahram Kazhoyan said that though a visit had been planned during President Clerides’ administration, this did not materialise. This visit was finalised when the two state leaders met at the events marking the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow last year.

Central Bank Chairman Tigran Sargsyan is also expected to have meeting with officials at the Central Bank of Cyprus, while Deputy Culture Minister Gagik Gyurjian will sign a memorandum of cooperation that renews a bilateral education and culture programme for the years 2006-2008.
On Friday, Kocharian will visit Nicosia Town Hall where he will meet with the Mayor of Nicosia Michalakis Zampelas who will present the Armenian president with the golden key to the city and will accompany him to a visit to the old part of town and the cease-fire line.
Later on, Kocharian and his delegation will visit the Nareg Armenian elementary school in Nicosia and meet with the Armenian Archbishop and members of the community.
In the afternoon he will lay the foundation stone of the monument to commemorate the survivors of the Armenian genocide at the Larnaca Promenade.
He leaves on Saturday morning.

[am.i.will]

Armenia is our friend. Armenians are nice people.

[armenian_hero]

Turkey must recognise the armenian genocide. It is a historical TRUTH!

Our Borders reach beyond Mount Ararat..Its high 2 b hay!!!

[bg_turk]

Turkey must recognise the armenian genocide. It is a historical TRUTH!

The Turkish government will never recognize as genocide, something that was not called a genocide at the time and for the thirty years that immediately followed it, and something still is not legally a genocide.

Our Borders reach beyond Mount Ararat..Its high 2 b hay!!!

Yet another piece of wishful thinking.

[Sotos]

legally a genocide

You can have a legal genocide? But maybe in Turkey such thing is possible!

[paaul12]

The British Government

16 August 1974: " It is important that we should avoid any suggestion that in favouring the geographical separation of the two communities as the most viable solution of the Cyprus problem, we are working for the partition of the island. Partition has a bad name internationally. It would also be contrary to our obligations, both under the 1960 Settlement and as a fellow-member with Cyprus of the Commonwealth and the United Nations. I recommend that we should use the term "bioregional federation". We should reserve the term 'cantonal federation' for Mr. Gunes's proposal involving more than one area for each community..." (Mr. A. C. Goodison, British Foreign Office official on concealing Britains true policy for the partition of Cyprus)

[DT.]

what does this have to do with your genocide matey?