Armenpress
PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN CALLS ON TURKEY TO COME TO TERMS WITH ITS HISTORY
YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: Armenian parliament chairman Arthur
Baghdasarian said he did not doubt that the Armenian genocide will be
recognized and punished by the civilized world in the 21-st century so that
Adolf Hitler’s words “Who remembers now about the massacres of Armenians?”
be never recalled again.
Speaking to reporters at Tsitsernakaberd Memorial after laying a wreath
at the Genocide Memorial Baghdasarian said the world is witnessing drastic
and interesting changes connected with the process of the recognition of the
Armenian Genocide, citing Poland’s parliament decision earlier this week to
recognize the genocide and a joint tribute to its victims in Paris by the
visiting Armenian president Robert Kocharian and his French host Jacques
Chirac.
“I am confident that we shall witness a major progress and we shall fight
together with the whole civilized world so that genocides never happen
again,” Baghdasarian said.
Baghdasarian also said Armenia wants the entire region, including also
Turkey, to be integrated with Europe, but added that application of double
standards was unacceptable, adding that before to join the EU Ankara must
recognize and condemn the Armenian genocide.
“I believe that Turkey will have to come to terms with its history as
history cannot be buried,” he said.