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    PanArmenian News
    Dec 3 2004

    SLOVAKIAIS THE 16TH COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    The Parliament of Slovakia adopted the "Armenian resolution"
    unanimously

    On Tuesday the National Assembly of Slovakia passed a resolution
    adopting Armenian genocide. According to Ashot Grigoryan - the leader
    of Armenian community in Slovakia, the chairman of Slovakian
    parliament Pavel Rushovski is going to make an official statement
    urging not to allow Turkey's acceptance to European Union.

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian organizations lobbied the "Armenian
    resolution" with the aid of deputies from Christian-Democratic party.
    As for the government, it has repeatedly appealed to abstain from the
    issue because according to the leaders of Slovakian foreign ministry
    the resolution might have a negative impact on the relations between
    Bratislava and Ankara. Nevertheless, the parliament speaker did not
    hinder the consideration of the issue and the decision was made
    unanimously. 70 deputies voted for and no one voted against passing
    the resolution. It is important to mention that the Slovakian
    parliament intends to appeal to parliaments of European countries to
    put forward the adoption of Armenian genocide as a necessary
    requirement for acceptance of Turkey to European Union.

    In Slovakian parliament the "Armenian resolution" was passed much
    easier than in other countries. But it doesn't mean that Ankara has
    accepted the inevitable international recognition of Armenian
    genocide and doesn't put any obstacles in the way of its
    internationalization. The thing is that Turkey has very few ways to
    pressure Bratislava. Slovakia is one of the most "modest" and "non
    pretentious" countries of Europe. Little depends on Slovakia and
    Slovakia in its turn depends little of others. In the current case it
    was difficult for Turkey to find ways to affect the decision making
    process in contrast to Canada where many major corporations that had
    interests in Turkey were involved in the campaign against passing the
    resolution. The Montreal "S & C Lavilan" company received an order to
    build a subway in Ankara. "Bombardier" company won the tender for
    laying railways in Anatolia. The both mentioned companies actively
    lobbied the interests of Turkey in the Canadian parliament. Slovakian
    companies do not have any interests in Turkey, so that's why the
    Turks had very little lobby resources in this case.

    Slovakia became the 16th country to recognize Armenian genocide
    together with France, Russia, Italy, Vatican, Switzerland, Cyprus,
    Belgium, Greece, Canada Australia, Uruguay, Argentina, Lebanon and
    Iran. The Armenian genocide is also recognized by municipal
    committees of 36 Italian cities, 26 French cities, two cantons of
    Switzerland and the Welsh parliament. More and more achievable
    becomes the perspective of recognition of Armenian genocide by the
    United States of America. Resolutions have already been passed in 35
    states. 167 members from 425 of the House of Representatives and 30
    senators have already qualified the events of 1915 as genocide. Even
    the US administration often threatens Ankara with recognizing the
    genocide. It was just like that last week when the White House hinted
    that it will stop hindering the "Armenian resolution" if they go on
    telling in Ankara about the genocide as if organized in Iraq by
    Americans. On Monday the Turkish foreign minister Abdula Gyul
    approved that such talks have really taken place in Turkey. Thus, it
    is quite obvious that a very favorable situation is being formed in
    Washington for returning the "Armenian resolution" on the congress
    agenda. Maybe the United States will become the 17th country,
    recognizing Armenian genocide.
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