STATEMENT CALLING TURKEY TO ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE TO BE PUT
TO VOTE NO EARLIER THAN MAY 2005

06.04.2005 05:42

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Chairman of the German-Turkish forum of the
Christian Democratic Union Bulent Arslan refused to participate in
consideration of the statement by the faction of Christian Democratic
Union and Christian Social Union on Armenian Genocide. In his words,
it is a very subtle issue and cannot be really presented in Germany.
“Any interference from outside will impede reconciliation of the
Armenian and Turkish people. It is essential to perceive history
impartially”, he noted. To remind, early March Christian Democratic
Union and Christian Social Union submitted to the consideration of
Bundestag a statement calling Turkey to acknowledge the Armenian
Genocide. However, the discussion was postponed at the urgent request
of the greens and social democrats, who did not wish to tense relations
with Turkey on the threshold of Gerhard Schroder’s visit to Ankara. The
preliminary hearing of the statement will be held April 21, however
it will be put to the vote in May or June.
From: Baghdasarian