GENOCIDE ISSUE SHOULD BE VIEWED ON POLITICAL LEVEL

Pan Armenian News
18.04.2005 07:01

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ It is time to speak of the recognition of theArmenian
Genocide in Ottoman Turkey on the political level, put forward the
objectives and press for the international discussion of this crime
as well as territorial and moral compensation”, Director of the
National Academy of Sciences Ashot Melkonian, who participated in the
international conference entitled “Genocide: reality and condemnation”,
stated, IA Regnum reports. In his words, the mission on the historical
level has been already accomplished. “After today’s conference we,
historians should not be present at any conference on Genocide summoned
by Turks. To date this approach is comprehended by the politicians”,
he said. When touching upon the proposal of Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan on conduction of a joint investigation of the
events taken place in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the last
century Ashot Melkonian stated that we “have nothing to discuss and
prove.” “Tens of books containing documents from various archives
have been published recently in Armenian, Russian, Spanish, German,
French, English and even in Turkish. The Turkish party has not called
either of them in question. Whey Turks say that one of these documents
does not correspond to reality we will get involved in the scientific
dispute”, the professor said.