Turkiye, Turkey
March 17 2005
ARMENIAN AMBASSADOR: `THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA CREATED THE GENOCIDE
ISSUE’
Armenian Ambassador to the European Union Viguen Tchitechian said on
Tuesday that the genocide issue had been created by Armenians living
abroad in the diaspora. Speaking to the European Parliament’s
Interparliamentary Cooperation Commission meeting in Strasbourg,
Tchitechian said that he did believe a `genocide’ had occurred, but
added that the responsibility for this should not be put on the
shoulders of modern Turkey and the Turkish nation. Stressing that
some 3 million Armenians were living in Armenia, while some 5 million
others were living abroad in the diaspora, Tchitechian stated that
the diaspora had made the matter into a problematic issue. /Turkiye/
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress