PanARMENIAN.Net
Debate on Turkish influence on Genocide denying historians to be held in London
23.02.2007 17:57 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenia Solidarity (an independent organization,
formerly known as Wales-Armenia Solidarity), The Voice of New
Generation and the British-Armenian All Party Parliamentary Group
informed that British Minister for Europe Geoff Hoon calls for debate
on Turkish influence on historians denying the Armenian Genocide. He
made this statement in a letter to Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett,
who had forwarded to him an inquiry as to the government’s position on
the Armenian Genocide, independent French journalist Jean Eckian told
PanARMENIAN.Net.
`Whether some historians are under Turkish influence or not is itself
a matter for debate,’ Hoon said. Presumably, these are the historians
who insist that evidence for Genocide was `not sufficiently
unequivocal.’
`It is only two months since the Minister for Europe agreed that `over
a million Armenians were killed in the massacres of 1915′. We are
confident that the Minister will be informed that the government’s
refusal to equate the killing of "over a million Armenians in the
massacres of 1915"(the government’s words) with genocide as defined in
the UN 1948 Convention defies all known forms of logic. Our response
to this will be to invite him to debate the extent of Turkish
influence on notorious denialist historians such as Heath Lowry,
Justin McCarthy and Norman Stone. Prominent UK historians will be
invited to the debate, which will be held in the House of Commons
April 24 following our presentation of compelling evidence for the
Genocide. The public is also invited,’ says the statement issued by
Armenia Solidarity, The Voice of New Generation and the
British-Armenian All Party Parliamentary Group.