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| 13:35:30 | 18-04-2005 | Politics |

MUST TURKEY COMPENSATE?

According to Ashot Melqonyan, head of the RA Science National Academy
History Institute, the Armenian Genocide must be transferred from the
scientific field into the political. He thinks that in the international
level the term «Turkey’s responsibility» must be used alongside with
«Recognition and Condemnation of Armenian Genocide».

Today during the conference devoted to the 90th anniversary of the Armenian
Genocide Mr. Melqonyan expressed opinion that moral compensation is not
enough. According to him, compensation can be both material and territorial.
«For example, the issue of Ani ruins is not connected with territorial
compensation as the area of 44 square kilometers can be compensated only
materially».

Let us remind you that in an interview given to a Turkish journalist Robert
Kocharyan has said that the confirmation of historical fairness does not
presuppose material compensation or territorial demands.

And according to Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan, the Armenian nation has
already answered for the 1915 Genocide. «We have an independent country and
our national will is so strong that we will always remember that crime», he
announced today.

By the way, Turkish journalists were present at the conference.

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