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    PRESIDENT SARGSYAN SPEAKS AGAINST COMMISSION OF HISTORIANS

    Yerkir
    06.04.2010 13:15

    Yerevan (Yerkir) - President Sargsyan speaks against commission of
    historians in interview with German publication.

    Der Spiegel: Referring to the 1915 happenings, Turkish Prime Minister
    Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his interview with Der Spiegel that
    'the Genocide against Armenians is out of the question.' Why your
    neighboring nation can't accept its past?

    Serzh Sargsyan: Well, recently another statement has been made, that
    'Turks couldn't commit Genocide, while the Turkish history is clear
    and bright like the sun.' Turks are against branding the 1915 massacres
    as Genocide; however, this is not the issue to be solved by Ankara.

    Der Spiegel: Erdogan now is even threatening to expel Armenians,
    who illegally live in Turkey.

    Serzh Sargsyan: Such kind of unacceptable statements remind us of
    the Genocide. Unfortunately, I am not actually surprised that Turkish
    officials make the statements of that kind.

    Der Spiegel: What position should the international community show?

    Serzh Sargsyan: It should respond to this; the U.S., Europe, Germany
    and other countries, involved in Armenia-Turkey reconciliation should
    respond and show their position in open daylight. If all the nations
    recognized the 1915 Genocide, then neither statement by Turks would
    have been made. However, protests by numerous youth activists against
    the statement are encouraging. There is a new generation there,
    whose opinion must be looked up to by the political authorities.

    Der Spiegel: Turkey accuses you of strong position against the
    commission of historians. Why are you against it?

    Serzh Sargsyan: How the commission may work neutrally, if it is a
    criminal case to use g-word in Turkey, and one can even be brought
    to a trial for using Genocide-word. It's is important to Ankara to
    stretch the solution-making process; and when the governments of
    certain nations are voting over the Resolution on Genocide, Turkey
    may say - don't be in the way; look, our historians are studying the
    issue. The creation of the commission would mean the questioning the
    Genocide. It is unacceptable.

    Der Spiegel: Why the issue of recognition of the 1915 Genocide is so
    important to Armenia now, after 95 years?

    Serzh Sargsyan: This is an issue of historical justice and issue of
    Armenia's security; the best way to prevent such kind of crimes is
    its clear condemnation.

    Der Spiegel: You can see Ararat, symbol of Armenia, through your
    cabinet's window. The Ararat Mountain is now on Turkey's territory;
    Turkey is afraid of territorial claims and compensations. Do you want
    to bring Ararat back?

    Serzh Sargsyan: Ararat is in our hearts; in any Armenian's house
    anywhere in the world you'll find a picture of Ararat, no one can take
    it away. I believe that time will come when Ararat will be a symbol
    of understanding between the two nations, not division. However, I'd
    like to point out the following: neither Armenian government has ever
    claimed for territories; Turks themselves are ascribing them to us.

    Maybe, gilt?

    Der Spiegel: Armenia's borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan are closed;
    Iran and Georgia are in some kind of complicated neighbors; isn't it
    a better way to break this isolation?

    Serzh Sargsyan: We don't link the issue of recognition of the Genocide
    with borders' opening. And is not our fault that the reconciliation
    isn't coming true.

    Der Spiegel: Turkey wishes for linking the border's opening with
    settlement to the Karabakh conflict. Armenians fought in this inflicted
    war on the territory that Azerbaijan claimed after USSR's collapse.

    Serzh Sargsyan: Turks want us to compromise. However, this is
    impossible. Right to self-determination of the people of Nagorno
    Karabakh is an issue of greatest importance. If Azerbaijan recognizes
    independence of Nagorno Karabakh, then the issue can be solved in a few
    hours. Unfortunately, up to now Azerbaijan claims Nagorno Karabakh;
    while Karabakh's joining to Azerbaijan means a certain deportation
    of Armenians from Nagorno Karabakh, and this all just in a very
    short period.

    Der Spiegel: Do you have a solution to this?

    Serzh Sargsyan: Why former Yugoslavia's nations could receive the
    independence? So why can't Nagorno Karabakh practice the same right?

    Is the reason - gas and oil resources of Azerbaijan and Turkey's
    patronage? We consider this to be unfair.
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