KALONSKA: GERMANY SHOULD RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Yerkir
21.08.2006 16:22
YEREVAN (YERKIR) – Germany should recognize the Armenian
Genocide unreservedly, Hans Kalonska, the director of Germany’s
Marborg-Bidenkopf Red Cross said when speaking to reporters in Yerevan.
The German Red Cross delegation visited Sunday the Armenian Genocide
Memorial to pay homage to the 1915 Genocide victims.
Kalonska said the Armenian Genocide resolution passed by the German
Bundestag should have had described the events of the past century
in more precise legal terms.
"The resolution has not found adequate resonance in the German society
though Germany shares a responsibility for the crime," Kalonska
said. He added that only 10 percent of the German youth have some
idea of Armenia and even less are aware of the Armenian Genocide.
Kalonska also said that Turkey cannot join the European Union until
it has recognized the Armenian Genocide.