IT’S NECESSARY TO FORM ARMENIAN-TURKISH INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMISSION FOR SOLUTION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE, KIRO MANOYAN FINDS

Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 22 2006

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 22, NOYAN TAPAN. After the adoption of the law by
France defining punishment for denial of the Armenian Genocide, a
concerned situation was created in Ankara, and it is not accidental
that Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul’s statement that the
genocide issue will be the most important problem of the foreign policy
of Turkey during the coming ten years. Kiro Manoyan, the Armenian
Revolutionary Federation Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) Office Director,
expressed such an opinion at the November 22 press conference. In his
words, the situation in Turkey became more hard after the democrats’
victory at the Congress elections of the United States of America
as the latters are known for their pro-Armenian posture, and newly
elected Speaker of the Congress, democrat Nancy Pelosi promised to
discuss the resolution on the Armenian Genocide at the plenary sitting
of the Congress.

In K.Manoyan’s words, in the created situation Turkey strives for
using a new strategy, that’s, to address to the international court
and move the issue on the historic field. "The Armenian side must
quickly oppose it and prove that it is necessary to discuss the issue
not at the Court of Arbitration, but at the International Court of
Justice," K.Manoyan mentioned. In his words, as the two countries’
authorities must solve this issue, "it will be sensible" to create
an intergovernmental commission. Though the authorities of Turkey
state that the country society is not ready for the issue discussion,
they themselves keep the people far from that issue.

Responding the question "Why do the United States of America avoid
using the term "genocide?" K.Manoyan said that the U.S. avoids
that word as "it does not want to offend Turkey," but not for it
calls the fact of genocide into question. "The only state which is
strictly against the recognition of the Armenian Genocide is England,"
K.Manoyan stated.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress