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    STATEMENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES

    AZG DAILY #24
    12-02-2010

    February 8, 2010

    Regarding the Historical Sub-Commission in the Armenian-Turkish
    Protocols

    Following a vote at the November 21, 2009, meeting of the Society for
    Armenian Studies (SAS), which called on the SAS Executive Council
    to prepare a statement concerning the Historical Sub-Commission
    in the Armenian-Turkish Protocols; and following a vote of the SAS
    membership in support of the statement; the SAS Executive Council,
    on behalf of the entire SAS membership, hereby issues the following
    statement regarding the proposed Historical Sub-Commission:

    The recently-signed Protocols between the Republic of Armenia and the
    Republic of Turkey call for a sub-commission with the vaguely defined
    task of looking into existing historical problems for an impartial
    examination of historical records and archives. The stated purpose
    is to restore mutual confidence between the two nations. Although
    no express reference is made in the Protocols, there is an almost
    universal agreement that the Turkish side would use the sub-commission
    as a vehicle for perpetuating its denial of the Armenian Genocide
    and casting doubt on the validity of the massive body of evidence
    establishing it as genocide.

    While the Turkish government, in keeping with a long-standing state
    policy, continues to make every effort to question and deny the
    veracity of the Armenian Genocide, President Serge Sargsyan has on a
    number of occasions asserted that the Genocide and loss of Armenian
    patrimony cannot be questioned; that the Genocide is a known truth
    and must be recognized and condemned; and that the reality of the
    Genocide can in no way become a subject of discussion as part of the
    agenda of the sub-commission.

    The Society for Armenian Studies hereby firmly states that the Armenian
    Genocide is an undeniable fact, established through dispassionate,
    meticulous, and multilingual archival research by a great number
    of experts, most of whom belong to respectable scholarly bodies of
    renowned authorities such as the International Association of Genocide
    Scholars and our own Society for Armenian Studies. The veracity of
    the Armenian Genocide cannot and must not be subject to discussion
    or to political give and take.

    The Society for Armenian Studies was founded in 1974 by a group of
    scholars from the universities of California, Columbia and Harvard
    on the initiative of Richard G. Hovannisian, Dickran Kouymjian, Nina
    Garsoian, Avedis Sanjian, and Robert Thomson. It is dedicated to the
    development of Armenian Studies as an academic discipline.

    The SAS Secretariat is located at the Armenian Studies Program
    of California State University, Fresno. For more information,
    visit http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/sas/index.htm , e-mail
    [email protected], or write to Armenian Studies Program,
    California State University, Fresno, 5245 N Backer Ave. PB4, Fresno,
    CA 93740-8001.
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