PRESIDENT SARGSYAN: ITION AND CONDEMNATION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS MATTER OF REINSTATING HISTORIC JUSTICE
ARKA
Apr 24, 2009
YEREVAN, April 24. /ARKA/. International recognition and condemnation
of the Armenian Genocide is a matter of reinstating historic justice,
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said in his national address on
the Day of remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide.
"Crimes against humanity do not have expiration date neither in the
memories of the people nor for history trial. For the Republic of
Armenia and the Armenian people the international recognition and
condemnation of the Armenian Genocide is a matter of reinstating
historic justice", presidential press office quoted Sargsyan.
"Today we bow to the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian
Genocide.
Ninety-four years ago, in the Ottoman Turkey took place the
state-designed and state-executed Armenian Genocide. A great number of
our people were cold-bloodedly annihilated. Today, for the survivors
of the Genocide, their descendants, and all Armenians the Genocide
is not only past reality but an indivisible part of our present and
our destiny."
President Sargsyan said that Armenian people are not alone in their
condemnation of the Genocide.
"At this time of remembrance we express our heartfelt gratitude to
the states, organizations and individuals who support us in our quest
for condemnation and prevention of this crime aga inst humanity. We
support those Turkish intellectuals who struggle for historic justice,
who share our pain. We have said numerous times that the process of
recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not directed against the
Turkish people and recognition of the Genocide by Turkey is not a
precondition for the establishment of bilateral relations", the head
of state said.
"At the time the lessons of the Armenian Genocide were ignored.
During the last decades sophisticated mechanisms against the
Genocide denial and denunciation of the recognition process have
been developed. To deny Genocide means to through into oblivion
this crime against humanity and to pave the way for new similarly
ferocious crimes. Today, when the world faces new instances of hatred,
nationalism, and intolerance, a united and unanimous response of
the human kind to the crimes against humanity becomes of crucial
importance. As President of the Republic of Armenia, I wish no other
nation ever goes through that tragedy again."
"Every one of our innocent victims has a name, family and story. The
committed crime has concrete culprits – those who planned it and
those who executed. Many of those tragic stories have not been told
yet. Even though a huge amount of work has been conducted, the world
is yet to see abundant evidence testifying to the fact of the Armenian
Genocide, testimonies, and documented facts.
Centuries- long Armenian history has many heroic pages, pages of
losses and pages of creation. Today, when we are building our new
statehood, when we shape new biography of our freedom we prove that
we ourselves can be the guarantors of our security and eliminate
any possibility of the repetition of similar crimes in the future",
the president said in his national address.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
