LECH WALESA: “IF WE FORGET ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS, GOD WILL TURN AWAY FROM US”

Pan Armenian News
21.04.2005 04:49

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “If we consign victims of the Armenian Genocide
to oblivion, the God will turn away from us,” former President of
Poland Lech Walesa stated at an international conference on the
90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan today. In
his words, within the past 17 centuries Armenia was independent for
only 300 years and in early 20-th century it tried to throw off the
Ottoman yoke, however the Young Turk Government decided the Armenian
issue via deportation and massacre of the Armenian people. It
was the first genocide of the 20-th century, L. Walesa stated,
adding the West limited itself to urging the Turkish authorities
and did not try to prevent the Armenian Genocide. “Today’s Turkish
authorities aggressively refuse to acknowledge the crime committed
by their ancestors, while Europe has denounced that crime twice
(in 1987 and 2000) and qualified it a Genocide,” the former Polish
President noted. To solve the current world integration problems at
present Mr. Walesa pointed out the need to use the most efficient
tool of the globalization – the dialogue between nations, cultures
and civilizations.