ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION ENTERED NEW STAGE

Yerkir
April 21, 2006

The Armenian Genocide recognition process has entered a new
stage. Almost all of the leading states recognized this fact and even
the U.S. doesn’t deny it, National Assembly’s Armenian Revolutionary
faction leader and historian Levon Mkrtchian said in an interview
with the PanArmenian.net.

In his words, Armenia should take the advantage of the international
community’s positive attitude about the Genocide recognition and
pursue a more precise line towards Turkey. “It’s time to speak
of compensations, since without it the fact of recognition loses
sense. For Armenia the matter concerns not only moral and material
side but appears as a security issue as well,” the ARF leader said.

Levon Mkrtchian underscored that is the neighbor state doesn’t
acknowledge the crime committed against a whole nation the opening
of the Armenian-Turkish border and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict
settlement can be protracted for an uncertain term.

At the same time the faction leader remarked that the Arab world
and Iran support Armenia in struggle for the Armenian Genocide
recognition. “Iran has not declared it at the state level but it sides
with Armenia. Actually, the majority of states arrived at a conclusion
that the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire should be recognized,”
Levon Mkrtchian said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress