OSMAN EMPIRE, ITS SUCCESSOR FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR 1915 GENOCIDE
by Tigran Liloyan

ITAR-TASS News Agency
April 24, 2006 Monday 03:45 AM EST

The Osman Empire and its legal successor bear full responsibility for
the 1915 Armenian Genocide,” President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan
stated here on Monday. “The entire subsequent history of the Armenian
people, who had lived through the horrors of genocide, is scarred by
the grave consequences of the committed crime,” the leader of the
republic stressed in his address to the fellow-countrymen on the
occasion of the commemoration of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians in
the Osman Turkish Empire.

“We are even more pained by the fact that we have to strive for
the recognition and condemnation of this dark page of history,”
the president noted. “The Republic of Armenia, being as it is the
mouthpiece of the national interests of the Armenians, who are now
living in their native land or abroad, will continue these efforts,”
Kocharyan stressed.

The Armenian president expressed gratitude to the countries,
organisations and personalities, who sympathise with the Armenians.

In his opinion, “the realisation that this is a problem of the entire
humanity is growing from year to year”.

“The efforts of the Armenians have nothing to do with vengeance,”
Kocharyan stressed. “We are looking far ahead of us, knowing that
the best response to the non-recognition of the 1915 Genocide should
be our powerful statehood, prosperity and progress of Armenia,”
the president of the republic stressed.