ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT A LOST CAUSE IN US CONGRESS
By Nana Petrosian
AZG Armenian Daily
01/05/2007
The speech of the US President on April 24, or the Human Rights Report
of the US State Department were not unexpected, announced historian
Richard Hovhannisian, being the guest of ‘Hayeli’ club. From his point
of view, everything is told in the speech of US president besides
the word ‘genocide’, but it will happen some time or other. The
recognition of the Genocide is more probable today than 20 years ago.
Moreover, the adoption of the resolution about the Armenian Genocide
is not a dead cause in the US Congress, the historian said. He was
not familiar to the speech of the State Department of Human Rights,
but in any cases, he thinks that the USA-Turkey relations are more
preferable and the resources of Baku are more important. Though
the partnership with Turkey is very important for USA, they must be
confident that the adoption of the Genocide, and the word ‘genocide’
in the message of US president will not affect the relations between
US and Turkey, and ‘finally Turkey will fall on its knees and ask
for a partnership with USA.’
The historian compared the virtuous leaders of the first
Republic of Armenia with the opposite picture of nowadays’ social
stratification. He found improvident the westward policy of the first
Republic of Armenia in comparison with the policy of today’s Republic
of Armenia. To the question about the elections of Armenia he answered:
‘In that reality there is only one person who carries my name. I
told many times that he would hardly have a success in Armenia. It
is my anxiety, and at the same time, my pride that he decided to
stay in Armenia, with his people, instead of his prospective life
abroad. Anyway, I hope he will have a success’. He was speaking about
his son Raffi Hovhannisian, the leader of the party ‘Jarangutyun’.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
