Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 8 / Trend News A. Huseynbala /

Turkey will not digress from discussing the so-called "Armenian genocide", Azerbaijani ruling party said.

"The Armenian lobby has used all possible ways for the U.S. Congress to recognize the so-called genocide. Turkey will not retreat, despite the so-called Armenian genocide is envisaged to be put to the vote by the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives in March," Deputy Executive Secretary of New Azerbaijan Party, MP Mubariz Gurbanli said in his interview with the Internet site of the party on Monday.

There are no diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia since 1993. The reason is anti-Turkish campaign carried out by Armenia in the international community and related to the so-called "Armenian genocide". Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan invited Turkish President Abdullah Gul to Yerevan for the World Cup qualifying match between Armenia and Turkey held on September 6. After Gul's visit diplomatic efforts to normalize relations between the two countries continue to take place.

The draft resolution on the recognition of "Armenian genocide" was delivered by the Democrat Congressman from California, Adam Schiff, to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the House of Representatives  in January 2007. "Despite pro-Armenian congressmen managed to carry out this resolution through the committee, the president vetoed it, and the resolution was not put to the vote in the U.S. Congress and Senate," MP said.

The Armenian National Committee in the United States continues to make efforts towards the recognition of the so-called "Armenian genocide". "The main purpose of all these actions is to put pressure on Turkey and force it to open its borders with Armenia. But the whole course of events testifies to the fact that Turkey will not retreat to discuss the so-called genocide," the deputy executive secretary said.

New Azerbaijan Party was founded in 1992 by national leader Heydar Aliyev, when he was a chairman of Nakhchivan Supreme Majlis. Now Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has been heading the party for 17 years.

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