Minister links ousting of Armenians from Turkey with Holocaust

Mediamax news agency
25 Jan 05

YEREVAN

Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan has said that “Hitler linked
the Armenians with the Jews forever”.

The Armenian foreign minister said this speaking at a special session
of the UN General Assembly in New York on 24 January devoted to the
60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps in Oswiecim.

“Hitler linked the Armenians with the Jews forever. ‘Who after all
remembers the extermination of the Armenians?’ Adolph Hitler said a
few days before the invasion of Poland. Hitler’s cynical mentioning of
the Armenians could be noticed in the Holocaust Memorial in Washington
since it stresses the key role of a third party in preventing
genocide,” Vardan Oskanyan said.

“What we are marking today became possible because Soviet troops
entered Oswiecim 60 years ago. I am here today because 90 years ago
Arabs gave asylum to deported Armenians [from Turkey],” the Armenian
foreign minister said.