“We don’t want anyone to believe that under the pressure of April 24 Turkey will do steps, in which it does not believe,” said the Turkish foreign minister Ahmed Davutoglu after his visit to Munich, where he had a number of meetings with officials from different countries. In the end of the last week it became clear that the foreign relations committee of the US Congress will discuss the bill on the Armenian genocide, which was the main topic of discussion between the Turkish foreign minister and US deputy secretary James Steinberg. “This development in the Congress may seem surprising. But we don’t believe so. We are very concerned of the recent coincidence of events. First, the Armenian Constitutional Court’s ruling with unexpected interpretations. Second, the meeting of the Armenian and Azeri presidents on the issue of Karabakh in Sochi, during which the Armenian party stepped back from compromise. And now an Armenian bill is developed at the US Congress,” said Davutoglu and claimed that the genocide bill under the discussion of the Congress does not comply with the interests of either the US, Turkey or Armenia. “When we said that we would sign the protocols, there was no pressure on Turkey. We believe we are moving in the right direction and that is why we did it,” said the Turkish foreign minister.
