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CRIMEA PARLIAMENT NOT GOING TO REVOKE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION

24.06.2005 04:19

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The adoption of the resolution recognizing the Armenian
Genocide aroused indignation not only in Azerbaijan and Turkey but in
Ukraine as well, APA Azeri news agency reported. Yesterday’s sitting of the
Crimean Supreme Rada was rich will calls to revoke the Armenian Genocide
resolution. Parliament Speaker Boris Deich mentioned of expediency of
revocation, however the deputies rejected the proposal. Deputy Vladimir
Kazanin said the demand on revocation of the Armenian Genocide resolution
was caused by pressure exerted by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. In his
words the Azeri leader, who arrived in Kiev to participate in Mini Davos
Forum on June 17-19, during the meeting with Supreme Rada Chairman Vladimir
Litvin that adoption of such a resolution in inadmissible. The deputy also
informed that Ilham Aliyev urged V. Litvin to exert pressure on the
parliament to revoke the resolution. He also added that the Crimean
parliament did not define the event of 1915 as `genocide’ and the delicacy
manifested by Kiev at present is groundless. V. Kazanin stated that
Armenians have lived in Crimea for over 1500 years and play an important
role in its history. Leader of the Crimean branch of the Republican party of
Ukraine Alexander Gress stated of impossibility of revoking the resolution.
`In the course 90 years no parliament in the world has ever cancelled any
decision referring to the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide victims.
So why should we do it?’ he said. To note, only 13 deputies voted in favor
of including the issue of revocation the resolution in the agenda.