WON’T OBAMA HONOUR HIS PLEDGE?
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01:16 pm | April 08, 2009
Politics
U.S. President Barack Obama simply gave Turkey time for contemplation
by April 24. At the same time, Mr. Obama paved the way for not
honouring his public pledge to recognise the Armenian Genocide,"
former ambassador of Armenia to Canada, historian Ara Papyan said
with regard to Barack Obama’s recent speech in Turkey.
Mr. Papyan thinks the U.S. President dodged the responsibility of
standing by his earlier statements describing the mass killings
of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide and shifted the
responsibility into the Armenian leadership. "Trying to preserve
the image of a person who always sticks to his views, Obama was on
Monday careful not to publicly reiterate his affirmation motivating
it by a desire not to hamper Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, in
particular the negotiation process between the conflicting sides over
the normalisation of the ties."
It wasn’t accidental that during the press conference the question
concerning the President’s pledge was raised by a U.S. journalist
pointed by Barak Obama.
"In Ankara the U.S. President availed himself of an opportunity to
express his stance and wag his finger at Turkey. Supposedly, the USA
hasn’t got a final answer from Turkey in some issues. Most likely,
it refers to the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Iraq."
Remind that Ara Papyan is presently carrying out a scientific research
on the Armenian Genocide.
"What a strange nation we are! We beg for justice all over the
world. Why should we long for the U.S. President pronounce the words
Armenian Genocide? U.S. president Woodrow Wilson expressed its stance
towards the Armenian-Turkish relations long ago and it was constituted
in a document of November 22, 1920 ratified by the signatures of the
U.S. President and State Secretary and a U.S. seal.
What else do you want? We should simply differentiate between
important and unimportant issues, especially when the bases of our
independent and dignified existence are upset. Obviously, the only
way to strengthen out statehood and survive is to challenge our rights.