"EVEN IF OBAMA DOES NOT RECOGNIZE GENOCIDE, WE SHOULD NOT FALL INTO DESPAIR"

16:27 21/04/2009
Panorama.am

Rouzan Araqelyan, member of the ARF fraction of the National
Assembly says she does not think the negotiations to improve the
Armenian-Turkish deal are unsuccessful or ruined. "It’s wrong to say
that a diplomatic activity is ruined. We can’t live having closed
borders forever or to live in hostility," she said. "We have launched
a process of improving the Armenian-Turkish relations but they will be
developed and advanced if we accept such resolutions which don’t damage
our national interests, which don’t put under question the Armenian
Genocide, Nagorno Karabakh conflict," ARF deputy said. Regarding the
concerns whether the U.S. President Barack Obama will say "Genocide"
in his message of 24 April, the deputy says that she thinks he will,
but still we should not have many expectations. "Of course, it is
important for us if he recognizes that fact. I think that the political
strategy will be also changed in this region," she said. The deputy
says that even if the U.S. President does not recognize the Armenian
Genocide we should not fall into despair.