NO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE FOR EU, ONLY HOLOCAUST

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| 14:04:41 | 20-04-2005 | Social |

Today in the international conference titled “Genocide and Human
Rights” which started in Yerevan one of the speakers was Juan Mendez,
UE Secretary General assistant on Genocide preventing affairs. The
latter mainly referred to the Jewish Genocide – the Holocaust.

In his speech Mr. Mendez did not speak about the Armenian Genocide. He
said that there is desire to understand and appreciated what
happened at the beginning of the previous century with the Armenian
Nation. According to him, the historical memory of the nation is
a good helper in that business and it will give the international
community a possibility to fully clear up everything. And what do
the participants of the conference think about the speech of Mendez?

“I am not elated”, said Ashot Melqonyan, head of the History
Institute. He considered Juan Mendez’s speech “diplomatic and not
telling anything”. “I think it would be better not to have that
speech”, concluded Ashot Melqonyan. Armen Rostomyan, representative of
the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Chief Body, and head of the NA
Standing Committee on Foreign Relations expressed his opinion shortly,
“He could have made the same speech in Turley as well”.

Norayr Davidyants, Minister of Health, did not want to comment on the
speech of Mendez, but said a little bit later, “It might have been
better”. RA Ombudsman Larissa Alaverdyan was not very attentive during
the Mendez’s speech, “At that moment I was speaking with the Irishman
(William Shabas, head of the Human Rights Irish Center)”.

“What is important for me is that Mendez has come to Armenia in that
connection”, added Mrs. Alaverdyan. For Michael Vegner, son of Armin
Vegner, German writer and eyewitness of the Armenian Genocide, the
speech of Mendez was not remarkable, “It was the speech of anyone
who would be in that post”.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress