ROAD-MAP DEFINED BY ARMENIA AND TURKEY MAKES IT HARDLY POSSIBLE USING THE WORD "GENOCIDE" BY US PRESIDENT

ArmInfo
2009-04-23 14:09:00

ArmInfo. The road-map defined by Armenia and Turkey makes it hardly
possible using the word "genocide" by US President Barack Obama
during is annual message in connection with the Armenian genocide,
Armenian turkologist Ruben Melkonyan said at today’s press-conference.

He also added Turkish diplomacy was long ago moving in this
direction, sometimes changing the places of its pre-conditions,
putting forward first the problem of the genocide or the Karabakh
conflict settlement. Melkonyan thinks Armenians make a fetish from
using the word "genocide" by Obama and connect with it the unreasonably
great expectations. But recognition of the Armenian genocide by the
USA depends on the legal decision but on using the word "genocide"
by the president of the USA. ‘As it is known the former president
Ronald Reagan also used the word "genocide" but it had no legal
consequences’, – Melkonyan said.