YEREVAN - Armenian President Robert Kocharian responded to the letter of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan who proposed to set up a joint commission of historians to investigate the facts of 1915.
Mediamax agency based in Yerevan said on Tuesday that Kocharian mainly told in the letter that ''an inter-governmental commission can be created to discuss any single question between our two countries or all questions with the goal of solving them and achieving joint understanding.''
Kocharian said that Armenia wanted to have diplomatic relations with Turkey, to open the borders and to start the dialogue between the two peoples. ''We have proposed and continue to propose establishing, without any preconditions, normal relations between our countries,'' Kocharian wrote in his reply.
Commenting that it was mainly the responsibility of governments to improve bilateral relations, not that of historians, Kocharian said in the letter that ''your proposal to address the past cannot be effective if it doesn't relate to the present and future.''
Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia sent the letter to Ankara.