TURKEY WILL RECOGNIZE OR WILL COLLAPSE

Lragir, Armenia
Nov 22 2006

Kiro Manoyan, ARF Dashnaktsutyun, in charge of Hay Dat and political
affairs, stated November 22 in Yerevan that the U.S. House or the
Senate have adopted three resolutions in the past 30 years condemning
the Armenian genocide, however the U.S. government has always avoided
using the word genocide to refer to the Armenian Genocide in 1915.

Matthew Bryza, the U.S. co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group, a
high-ranking State Department official, stated they are against
that the U.S. Congress adopt a new resolution, but the Democrats are
majority in the Congress, and it is possible that such a resolution
will be adopted, stated Kiro Manoyan. Like the previous three, the
fourth resolution will be a mere tool for pressure on Turkey.

Kiro Manoyan notices that the U.S. government is not doubting the fact
of the genocide but it does not speak about it not to exercise pressure
on Turkey. Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to Armenia Richard Hoagland
doubted the fact of the genocide. "This is Hoagland’s fault," stated
Kiro Manoyan, who thinks that the best solution of this problem
would be appointing another person ambassador to Armenia. Or at
least announce clearly that the United States does not doubt there
was a genocide.

The U.K., which is closer to the political line of the United States,
is against adopting resolutions on the Armenian genocide. Kiro
Manoyan thinks that the U.K. also does not want to exercise pressure
on Turkey because it views Turkey as bridging dialogues between the
civilizations. But "Turkey became a Turkish Republic, dismissing
the question of the genocide, and founded this republic on this
purification acknowledging their guilt, and will continue living with
this feeling until it collapses one day," stated Kiro Manoyan.