ArmInfo.The increase in the number of diplomatic missions of Armenia is on the agenda of the country's foreign policy department. Armenian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anna Naghdalyan said this at a press conference on March 20 when asked about Yerevan's intentions to open an embassy in Israel.
A spokeswoman said that the head of the foreign ministry said this in an interview with Israeli media last October. However, she stressed that the society will be informed about the development of events, as well as about the visits.
Referring to the mention of the Armenian Genocide in the controversy between Turkey and Israel, Anna Naghdalyan stressed that the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire is an indisputable fact, its recognition and condemnation, above all a moral issue. According to her, the prevention and prevention of new genocides is a universal priority. "And this question should be aloof from any political processes or speculations. We have always stressed that there is no need to look for subtexts where there are none," said the representative of the Armenian Foreign Ministry.
At the same time, she stressed that Armenia will continue to make efforts to prevent new crimes against humanity together with international partners. "I would also like to emphasize that speculation on the Armenian Genocide by Turkey is not acceptable to us. Recognition and condemnation of this crime is Ankara's moral obligation," she concluded.
To recall, the verbal sparring between the Israeli Prime Minister and the Turkish President has been going on for several months. Politicians regularly exchange insults against each other, but so far the statements have not concerned the family members of any of the leaders.
On March 13, during one of his speeches, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a despot and accused him of killing Palestinian children. "Netanyahu, a despot guilty of the death of Palestinian children, come to your senses. Nobody will make us forget the cause of Jerusalem. They will deal with us with every attack on our mosque. Even if everyone is silent, we will not be silent until the last breath the struggle for the fair administration of Jerusalem, in accordance with its importance for the Islamic world ", said Erdogan, speaking in Ankara.
Son of Netanyahu Yair Netanyahu responded to this statement of Erdogan, who reminded Erdogan about the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrians, the Pontic Greeks. "I would like to remind you that Istanbul is actually called Constantinople! And the city was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and world Christianity more than a thousand years before the Turkish occupation," he wrote on his Twitter page.