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LETERME CASTS DOUBT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Expatica Belguim, Belgium
June 5 2007
BRUSSELS - Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) leader and Flemish
minister-president Yves Leterme refuses to use the word "genocide"
to describe the mass killings of Armenians by Turkey in 1915.
Leterme said in an interview with Turkish newspaper Zaman that he
would prefer not to make any pronouncements on the Armenian genocide
but says international institutions are responsible for that kind of
determination, De Morgen reports.
"As a politician I make no judgement on that until the international
institutions have made a pronouncement on it. I hold firm to this
position and have nothing more to add," Leterme confirmed.
His statements put him in line with Dutch Labour leader Wouter Bos
(PvdA), who spoke of the "Armenian issue" rather than the "Armenian
genocide" in the run up to the Dutch elections. The discussion that
followed cost the PvdA votes.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp ?subchannel_id=24&story_id=40522
Expatica Belguim, Belgium
June 5 2007
BRUSSELS - Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) leader and Flemish
minister-president Yves Leterme refuses to use the word "genocide"
to describe the mass killings of Armenians by Turkey in 1915.
Leterme said in an interview with Turkish newspaper Zaman that he
would prefer not to make any pronouncements on the Armenian genocide
but says international institutions are responsible for that kind of
determination, De Morgen reports.
"As a politician I make no judgement on that until the international
institutions have made a pronouncement on it. I hold firm to this
position and have nothing more to add," Leterme confirmed.
His statements put him in line with Dutch Labour leader Wouter Bos
(PvdA), who spoke of the "Armenian issue" rather than the "Armenian
genocide" in the run up to the Dutch elections. The discussion that
followed cost the PvdA votes.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp ?subchannel_id=24&story_id=40522