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Dink’s assassination confirmed Genocide issue is not excluded from agenda
30.01.2007 16:58 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Hrant Dink’s assassination once more confirmed
Armenian Genocide issue is not excluded from agenda, stated Armenian
Ambassador to Great Britain Vahe Gabrielyan during an interview to
English edition of "Al Jazeera" TV company. In his words, the Armenian
Genocide in the Ottoman Empire is not subject to discussions and
doubts and was proved by many documentary materials, including by
evidences of Turkish historians.

`Instead of discussing if it happened or not, it is necessary to
discuss the problem of recognizing the Armenian Genocide and improving
the Armenian-Turkish relations. After all, the Turkish special
tribunal in 1919-1920ies sentenced some of the organizers of the
Genocide to death penalty or other punishments, but today this fact is
being forgotten,’ Gabrielyan said.

Alongside he underlined Armenia is not EU member and cannot put
forward preconditions for recognizing the Armenian Genocide in front
of Turkey to enter the European Union. `But the Copenhagen standards
demand from the EU member states to establish good neighboring
relations with all neighbors, solution of existing problems,
improvement of the situation with national minorities. All this
supposes recognition of the Armenian Genocide. A number of EU states
have already raised this question and Armenia hopes on EU’s principled
stance over this issue,’ underscored the Armenian diplomat, the RA MFA
Press Office reports.