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The Armenian National Committee of Australia criticized the country`s prime minister for meeting with the Turkish president

The Armenian National Committee of Australia criticized the country`s prime minister for meeting with the Turkish president

ArmInfo. The Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC-AU) has sent a letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressing serious concerns about his recent meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of COP31 and calling on the Australian government to ensure that its diplomatic engagement with Turkey does not come at the expense of its commitment to human rights and international law.

In its letter, the ANC-AU questions how the Australian government reconciles its commitment to a rules-based international order with diplomatic engagement with a country whose history is marked by the genocide of more than 2.5 million Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, the ongoing occupation of Northern Cyprus, and military and political support for Azerbaijan during the 2020 Artsakh War.

Recognizing the importance of maintaining diplomatic relations, the Armenian National The Australian committee stressed that such engagement should not provide an excuse to ignore long-standing injustices.

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