POLITICIANS WHO PROMISE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE, ARE ACTING PURELY FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
03.08.2007 14:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "Armenians themselves must tell the world about the
Genocide, nobody else will do it instead of them. In this issue there
is no one that Armenia may rely on. Those politicians who promise to
recognize the Armenian Genocide, are acting proceeding purely from
their own interests, and we do not have to look for examples very
long -the latest three US presidents," The Independent’s journalist
Robert Fisk stated in his lecture at the American University in
Yerevan. He reminded the auditorium that first Winston Churchill
called massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire ‘genocide’ in
1930ies of the 20th century.

"True, he was not prime minister then and even a politician, he was
a journalist in the Middle East," Fisk underlined.

Speaking on Great Britain’s stance in the recognition process of the
Armenian Genocide, Fisk stated that the best example of it is the fact
that former Premier Tony Blair proclaimed January 27 as the Remembrance
Day for Holocaust, completely "forgetting" the Armenian Genocide. "The
British government thinks it does not have enough information on the
events of 1915, instead it has enough information that Iraq possesses
weapons of mass destruction," The Independence’s correspondent said.

At the same time he underlined recognition of the Armenian Genocide
must become a compulsory precondition for Turkey in his EU bid.

Robert Fisk is a well-known journalist and writer, author of a book on
the Middle East and correspondent at The Independent. He has received
severel prestigious awards in journalism, lives and works in Beirut.