National Post (Canada)
October 13, 2006 Friday
Toronto Edition

Official Armenian genocide recognition results in visit from Foreign
Minister

CanWest News Service

Armenia’s Foreign Minister will pay a politically charged visit to
Ottawa next week, less than six months after the Harper government
formally recognized the Armenian genocide and angered its NATO ally
Turkey in the process. Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian will meet his
Canadian counterpart, Peter MacKay, on Wednesday and will also be
feted in a luncheon by some three dozen parliamentarians in what is
the first official visit by an Armenian politician since Prime
Minister Stephen Harper’s April statement acknowledged the Armenian
genocide of 1915 in which 1.5 million people were killed — a first
by the Canadian government and a decision that placed the country in
the company of 24 other countries.