PARTICIPANTS OF CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO 85th ANNIVERSARY OF MOSCOW TREATY CALL ON NA TO INVALIDATE MOSCOW AND KARS TREATIES

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Mar 14 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. “The Moscow Treaty
concluded in 1921 between two empires hasn’t received a deserved
estimation by now.

In fact, by this treaty the Armenia’s achievements created by May 28,
after the interval of 6 centuries, were reduced to zero,” Ishkhan
Saghatelian, Chairman of ARFD Nikol Aghbalian student union, declared
at the conference organized by the union in connection with the 85th
anniversary of the Moscow Treaty.

According to him, this treaty concluded between Russia and Turkey
was one of the anti-Armenian acts: “A shameful treaty that tightened
Armenia’s bondage for even more”.

Saghatelian reminded that “by the inducement of the same dictatorship”
the Armenian communists signed the humiliating Kars Treaty on October
13 1921, which became the ratification of the decision about capturing
Armenia and was concluded with Russian-Turkish cooperation.

The press conference participants, among which there were
representatives of a number of youth structures of the party and NGOs,
adopted a statement, according to which the Moscow Soviet-Turkish
Treaty and Kars treaty, which is its continuation, are worthless from
the moment of their signing as they contradict the main principles
and norms of the international law.

The statement authors call on the Armenian National Assembly to
invalidate the “illegal treaties violating the rights and interests
of the Armenian people”. It’s also mentioned that RA Foreign Ministry
should adopt a statement about the Moscow and Kars Treaties’ being
inadmissible for Armenia.