VARTAN OSKANIAN: HISTORY NOT ALWAYS GIVES HUMANITY A SECOND CHANCE BUT WE HAVE IT

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2007 13:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "For a long time we had been trying to immortalize
the events of the beginning of the 20th century. We were alone,
since there were two variants of history: official and supposed,
recognized and rejected. The ruined empire was replaced by a state
with nearly deified self-consciousness. It could not be tolerant to
a massacre; this was beyond comprehension. By this very reason a new
history was invented, a history without tragic events. The verdicts
of the military courts were eliminated.

Evidences of missionaries and diplomats were questioned," Armenian
Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said in Brussels when addressing
a soiree in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian
Minister said events of the kind are very important for prevention
of escalation of genocides from Bosnia to Rwanda and Darfur. He also
welcomed a Turkish intellectual, who said, "I am not to blame for what
was done 90 years ago but I am responsible for what can be done today."

Modern Turkey should be divided from the Ottoman Empire, according to
Vartan Oskanian "However I should mention that if it’s possible when
speaking of the 1915 events it becomes more and more difficult when
the matter concerns Turkey’s policy of denial. How is it possible to
divide two states when they propagandize the same ideology? Denialist
ideology is shameful. The later Turkey addresses its past and divides
its conduct from the Empire’s deeds the harder it will be to explain
the public that these are two different states," Minister Oskanian
said. "Armenia and Turkey are neighbors and will remain as such. We
have a common border and we can advance together only. History not
always gives the humanity a second chance but we do have such. Europe
is a place where people draw whatever they need to advance. It’s the
place where former enemies can condemn events and politics but by no
means people. On the contrary, the peoples of Europe pace from hatred
towards reconciliation and accept the future openly. That’s what we
want in our region," Vartan Oskanian resumed.