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    AAA LEADER: US WILL DO WHAT OTHERS HAVE DONE IN ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


    02.04.2005 03:50

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ In the issue of acknowledgement of the Armenian
    Genocide the US will do what other countries have done some time or
    later, Armenian Assembly of America Executive Director Ross Vartian
    stated, the Milliyet Turkish newspaper reported. `France has
    recognized the Genocide, however it did not damage the Turkish-French
    relations at all,' he added. He considered senseless the proposals to
    submit the genocide issue for discussion, grounding it with the
    historians having discussed it long ago and have come to a certain
    conclusion. Answering the question that `genocide is merely the
    problem of the Diaspora,' Ross Vartian noted, `the acknowledgement of
    the Genocide is one of priority tasks of Armenia's foreign policy.

    Some 1 million people visit the Memorial of the victims of the
    Genocide victims April 24 each year ` this makes 1/3 of the population
    of Armenia. We ` the Diaspora representatives ` are not hostile
    towards the Turkish people.' Answering the questions referring to the
    territorial integrity of Turkey and the Armenian-Turkish relations,
    Ross Vartian did not deny that the acknowledgement of the Genocide
    will have certain consequences for Turkey. Simultaneously, he noted,
    `however the definition of the consequences of the acknowledgement of
    the Genocide does not concert the Diaspora. It is the affair of
    Yerevan and Ankara. As of the land demands, the authorities of Armenia
    have made an unilateral statement on respecting the territorial
    integrity of Turkey.' `Armenia and Turkey should be able to discuss
    all problems available. It is necessary to open the borders. The
    acknowledgement of the Genocide is not a precondition to settlement of
    the relations between Yerevan and Ankara and it cannot be. The sound
    dialogue is important. The Genocide will be recognized when the
    Turkish people themselves want it and make the Turkish Government do
    it, but not under pressure from the outside. Turkey is being gradually
    reconstructed, challenges the history, otherwise Orhan Pamuk! would
    ha ve not been able to make a public statement on the murder of 1
    million Armenians,' he stated.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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