Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 24 2006

ISSUE OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE HAS BECOME SUBJECT OF POLITICAL
SPECULATIONS, FIRST RA PRESIDENT’S SPOKESPERSON CONSIDERS

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 23, NOYAN TAPAN. The issue of the Armenian
Genocide committed in the Ottoman Empire has become a subject of
political speculations. Political scientist Levon Zurabian,
Spokesperson for first RA President, expressed such an opinion on
November 23 at the Hayeli (Mirror) club. As he affirmed, Armenia’s
position in this issue has no significance for the international
recognition of the Genocide. And EU member countries, in L.Zurabian’s
words, use the issue of recognition of the Genocide for preventing
Turkey from joining this organization.

He said that by speculating the issue of the Genocide the Armenian
authorities receive a considerable assistance from the Diaspora.
Besides, the issue is also used for the purpose of distracting the
public attention from the problems existing inside the country.

As L.Zurabian estimated, the issue of the Armenian Genocide has been
inappropriately politicized, whereas it should be considered from
moral point of view. In his words, the approach of former RA
authorities was different in the respect that the issue of
recognition of the Genocide was considered in the context of
Armenian-Turkish relations. In L.Zurabian’s words, the former
authorities also managed to separate Armenian-Turkish and
Armenian-Azerbaijani relations, so to separate Azerbaijan’s and
Turkey’s interests.