EAFJD: MEP COVERS UP ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE IN TURKEY REPORT
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.09.2007 13:50 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The European Armenian Federation for Justice and
Democracy (EAFJD) is mobilizing Armenians from throughout Europe to
seek to reverse a series of serious shortcomings in a draft resolution
on Turkey, prepared by Mrs. Oomen-Ruijten (Conservative, Netherlands),
for the consideration of the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs
Committee.
The Committee is set to examine the Oomen-Ruijten resolution on
Thursday 13 September. Her measure congratulates Turkey for its
past progress and outlines a number of areas in which it has not met
European standards. The European Armenian Federation, having reviewed
the resolution, has found that it represents a retreat from the 2006
Eurlings report and, in light of it unbalanced presentation of the
facts, a clear step back from the more principled positions adopted
in reports adopted by the Parliament since 2000.
"We are working with all the democratic forces in the European
Parliament to ensure that this resolution will accurately identify
Turkey’s failure to meet its own commitments to the European family
of nations," said Hilda Tchoboian, the Chairperson of the European
Armenian Federation.
"It is, quite simply, unacceptable for the European Parliament
to allow the authors of this flawed measure to seek to minimize,
cover-up, or even entirely exclude from their report such vital and
pressing issues as the Armenian Genocide, Kurdish rights, and the
occupation of Cyprus," added Tchoboian. "As this matter is taken
up in Committee, we call upon our constituent members, friends,
and allies across Europe to continue educating their Members of the
European Parliament, and other European leaders, about the dangers
of passing such an unbalanced resolution."
The European Armenian Federation is calling upon the leaders of
Armenian groups across the continent to coordinate with it the
mobilization of the Armenian community.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress