BUNDESTAG TO DISCUSS RESOLUTION ON MASS SLAUGHTER OF ARMENIANS TODAY

Pan Armenian News
21.04.2005 05:18

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ German Bundestag will today discuss the Resolution
on Deportation and Mass Slaughter of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey
in 1915. As reported by German media, the document notes that some
1.2-1.5 million Armenians were killed in the course of “a planned in
advance deportation” realized during World War I. The resolution is
sponsored by Christian Democratic Union CDU/CSU of Germany. However,
according to Berliner Zeitung, the term “genocide” is “cautiously
avoided” in the three-page resolution. One of the MPs, who wished to
remain anonymous, reported that the resolution aims at reconciliation
of Turkey with Armenia. “We want to build a reconciliation bridge, not
to close the door,” he noted. In his turn Chairman of the Commission
for European Affairs of the Bundestag Matthias Wissmann stated that
“open and honest attitude towards the massacre of the Armenians
is a litmus test for the European trust to Turkey.” In his words,
“it is a high risk for the EU to accept such a country as Turkey,
which has such tense relations with its neighboring Armenia,” Regnum
news agency reported.