Armenia to take the so-called genocide to the UN

NTV MSNBC, Turkey
Dec 24 2004

The Armenian Foreign Minister said that his country was not an
outpost for Russia or any other country.

December 24 – Armenia is to take its claims that the Ottoman Empire
committed genocide against its Armenian citizens to the United Nations.

Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanyan said in a television
interview late Thursday that Yerevan would bring the so-called Armenian
genocide issue before the United Nations in 2005.

Oskanyan said that the issue of the alleged Armenian genocide was an
international matter that extended beyond Armenia and that had been
raised during Turkey’s European Union progress talks.

In the meantime, a number of persons who are claiming compensation
for having allegedly suffered as a result of the actions of the
Ottomans in 1917 to 1918, have lodged applications with the Armenian
authorities. To date, some 450 application have been submitted.