AS ARPI VARDANIAN PREDICTED IT, BARACK OBAMA WILL KEEP HIS PROMISE TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

NOYAN TAPAN

Feb 4, 2009
YEREVAN

In the meetings with American Armenians U.S. Congressmen express
the hope that new President Barack Obama will keep his preelection
promise to recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Arpi Vardanian,
the Armenian Assembly of America Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh Office
Director, reported at the February 4 press conference reminding B.
Obama’s words: "The Armenian Genocide is not a personal perception,
but a fact, about which there is large-scale evidence."

As A. Vardanian predicted it, U.S. President will remain loyal to
his promise and will recognize the Armenian Genocide, especially as,
according to her observation, an irreversible process of genocide
preception, search for the truth, learning lessons from the past has
started in the world.

According to A. Vardanian, that process has been also launched and
continues in Turkey, where nearly 30 thousand signatures have been
collected as a result of a group of intellectuals’ initiative to
apologize to the Armenians. A. Vardanian classed as a progress the
circumstance that the Turkish authorities decided not to call for
criminal liability the signature collection initiators.

A. Vardanian confirmed the observation of a journalist that the Turkish
lobbying has become active in the U.S. in the past years. Nevertheless,
according to her, the Turkish agitation is still inferior to the
Armenian one.