OSKANIAN CALLED ADOPTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION BY BUNDESTAG TURNING POINT
Pan Armenian News
17.06.2005 03:31
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia positively evaluates the German Bundestag
passing the Armenian Genocide Resolution, Armenian Foreign Minister
Vartan Oskanian said. In his words, it is a very important step on the
way of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. It spite
the resolution language does not include the term «genocide,» as the
Bundestag does not consider itself competent to estimate the events
taken place in 1915, however the word «genocide» is included in the
descriptive part of the document and the term «massacre of Armenians»
is used in the part of the decision, the Armenian FM remarked. Taking
into account the circumstance that Germany has avoided discussion
of the issue for many years and rather tended to silence or denial,
the Bundestag Resolution is a turning point. Specifically, Germany
recognizes its complicity to events in 1915 and urges Turkey to put off
with its past. As noted by V. Oskanian, the Bundestag Resolution is
another step to inclusion of Armenian issues in the agenda of talks
on Turkey’s accession to the EU, reported the Press Service of the
Armenian Foreign Ministry.
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