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    GIRO MANOYAN: TURKEY MAY CASH IN ON US COURT'S APPELLATE JUDGEMENT

    Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
    Aug 27 2009
    Armenia

    U.S. President Barack Obama should make it clear that his not using
    the term 'genocide' does not mean any other president cannot recognize
    the Armenian Genocide, Head of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Office
    Giro Manoyan told reporters.

    Manoyan also addressed an appellate judgement rendered by one of
    the courts of appeal in California, USA, on August 20. The court
    invalidated as unconstitutional the law on life insurance indemnities
    for the relatives of victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman
    Empire in 1915. Manoyan presented the details of the judgement the
    Armenian side is going to appeal.

    Manoyan is sure that the judgement must be appealed. Otherwise
    Turkey will be cashing in on it to force the U.S. states that
    recognized the Armenian Genocide to invalidate the resolutions as
    unconstitutional. The Turkish lobby will thus try to prevent the
    adoption of a resolution on the Armenian Genocide by the US Congress.

    Manoyan offers two ways of preventing such developments - a political
    and a legal one.

    The political way is that the Armenian lobby in the United States gets
    President Obama to clearly state that his not using the term "genocide"
    does not mean that any other president cannot recognize the Armenian
    Genocide. The legal way is appealing the judgement, the more so that
    only two of 10-12 justices were considering the claim, and only three
    justices rendered the judgement. The last resort is, Manoyan said,
    applying to the United States Supreme Court. It is important that
    the judgement not become a precedent for the U.S. judicial system.

    As to whether the United State is trying to pressure Armenia by
    means of such judgements, Manoyan said: "I do not want to believe
    that the Executive can so easily use the Judiciary in the United
    States. However, Armenia is obviously being pressured in the context of
    Armenian-Turkish relations irrespective of the judgement in question,"
    he said.

    It is noteworthy that a week remains for the judgement to be appealed.
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