KIRO MANOYAN: WE’RE CONFIDENT US PRESIDENT WILL RECOGNIZE THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
13.04.2009 15:36 GMT+04:00
"We’re confident the US President will use the word Genocide in
his Apr. 24 address and recognize the Armenian Genocide just as he
pledged to. Should he forgo his pledge, both the Armenian Diaspora
and Americans will lose their trust for him," Hay Dat Bureau Director
Kiro Manoyan told a news conference today.
"Turkey will strike an angry pose, but for a couple of months only,
then the things will resume their natural order. We witnessed
similar behavior of Turkey when France recognized the Armenian
Genocide. Turkey would send notes for some time, but then things
calmed down," Moanoyan reminded.
He also stressed that Obama’s words will not determine the course of
negotiations on either NKR conflict settlement or normalization of
Armenian-Turkish ties.
"As for supposed deterioration in American-Turkish relations, they
leave much to be desired ever since Turkish parliament refused to
allow American forces’ passage to Irak through Turkey."
In January 2008 Barack Obama pledged to recognize mass slaughter used
by the Ottoman authorities against defenseless Armenians back in 1915
as Genocide.