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    PRESS RELEASE
    The Heritage Party
    31 Moscovian Street
    Yerevan, Armenia
    Tel.: (+374 - 10) 53.69.13
    Fax: (+374 - 10) 53.26.97
    Email: [email protected]; [email protected]
    Website: www.heritage.am


    29 January 2008



    ARMENIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE RESOLUTIONS IN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE



    Strasbourg, France--On the 25th of January, the Parliamentary Assembly
    of the Council of Europe (PACE) put into official circulation a Motion
    for a Resolution titled "The State of Cultural Heritage in Turkey" and
    a Motion for a Recommendation on "The Present State of Armenian
    Cultural Treasures in Turkey."

    Cosponsored by more than 25 members of parliament representing 21
    European countries and all five of PACE's political groups, the
    motions make reference to the Genocide and attendant dispossession of
    the Armenian people and call upon Turkey, among other points, to
    undertake a comprehensive inventory and the subsequent restoration and
    operationalization of Armenian and other cultural heritage destroyed
    or ruined during the past century, including all ancient and medieval
    Armenian capital cities, churches, fortresses, cemeteries, and other
    treasures of historic Armenia currently under its jurisdiction.

    The motions, which are customarily referred to committee before being
    considered in plenary session, also address the freedom of expression,
    the teaching of genocide, minority rights and restitution, and the
    accomplishment of reconciliation through the truth, and look forward
    to "the long-awaited celebration of the Armenian cultural heritage
    based on a full Turkish-Armenian normalization anchored in the
    assumption of history, the pacific resolution of all outstanding
    matters, and a complete Europeanization of their relationship."

    The actual motions can be found at
    http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Document s/WorkingDocs/Doc08/EDOC11510.htm
    and http://assembly.coe.int/Main.asp?link=/Documents/W orkingDocs/Doc08/EDOC11511.htm.

    Founded in 2002, Heritage has regional divisions throughout the land.
    Its central office is located at 31 Moscovian Street, Yerevan 0002,
    Armenia, with telephone contact at (374-10) 536.913, fax at (374-10)
    532.697, email at [email protected] or [email protected], and website
    at www.heritage.am

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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