Federation of Armenian Organizations in The Netherlands
24 April Committee
For Recognition and Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915
Address: Weesperstraat 91
2574 VS The Hague, The Netherlands
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Press Release
19 April 2007

Contact: M. Hakhverdian

Unacceptable Contempt Towards the Destiny of the Armenianrs by EU

The Federation of Armenian Organisations in the Netherlands (FAON) today has
urgently requested the Dutch government to not agree in Brussels with a
directive criminalising denial and trivialising of the genocide. According
to the reports the formulation would be chosen in such a way to exclude the
Armenian Genocide from these provisions.

The FAON asks an urgent consultation and requests meanwhile to not take
irreversible steps such as the approval of the European directives, if they
would imply such an exclusion.

The FAON finds it absurd and unacceptable, that exactly this first great
Genocide of the 20th century, which is systematically denied by Turkey in
line with the Turkish denialist policy, would be excluded.

Such a distinction between historical events would mean a flagrante
inequality and would be a big and unacceptable contempt towards the destiny
of the Armenianrs by Europe. Still more than that, it shows Europe on its
knees before the aggressive denialist practices of Turkey and the umpteenth
success by Turkey in Europe for that denialist policy.