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    NEW REVELATIONS WITH NEW CONTRADICTIONS
    By Karine Mangasarian

    Yerkir.am
    April 28, 2006

    Almost half of the countries that have recognized the Armenian
    Genocide have done so during the rule of the Armenian National
    Movement, ANM's Aram Manukian said during a roundtable discussion
    on the Armenian-Turkish relations with Kiro Manoyan, the director of
    the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Bureau's Office for Political
    Affairs.

    What's more, he was the one conducting talks in those countries to
    have the Genocide recognized, Manukian said.

    Manukian, who criticized the Armenian authorities present policies,
    said his party was guided by the policy "There are no eternal friends
    or enemies, there are eternal interests."

    Speaking in the context of the Armenian-Turkish relations, he added
    that the ANM ruled out the possibility of using third countries
    against Turkey, something that the present government has adopted
    as its policy when dealing with Turkey. He also said that by keeping
    the Armenian Genocide issue on agenda, the Armenian government puts
    the country out of all the regional projects that involve Azerbaijan,
    Georgia and Turkey.

    Kiro Manoyan, in turn, said he was happy to know the ANM was
    participating in the Genocide recognition process. "But then what
    are their disagreements with the present authorities?"

    "What we knew until now was that the Genocide issue was not on the
    agenda of the ANM," Manoyan said.

    "Even though Armenia did not raise the Genocide issue then, Turkey's
    position was explicit: it wanted the Armenian authorities to pressure
    the Diaspora to end its campaign of the international recognition of
    the Armenian Genocide, " Manoyan added.

    "The recognition of the Genocide is a political issue - to maintain
    pressure on Turkey," he said. "Because of our measures, Turkey is
    now making mistakes; they are trying to form their Diaspora, stage
    protest actions, but fail.

    This shows that the present policy is right."
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