CCAF: THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS NOT NEGOTIABLE

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
18.09.2009 17:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ On August 31, Armenia and Turkey under the mediation
of Switzerland promulgated two protocols on the establishment of
diplomatic relations between the two countries. Yerevan and Ankara
have a period of six weeks before giving their final approval and
then the documents will be ratified by their parliaments. In this
context the CCAF wishes to clarify its position on major issues.

The Armenian Genocide is not negotiable and it could not be examined
by a sub-intergovernmental commission, Jean Eckian independent French
journalist reported to PanARMENIAN.Net.

History is already written, no one can deny this fact acknowledged
as Genocide by historians, lawyers, international institutions,
and over 20 states, including France.

Moreover, genocide results in any moral, political and material
compensation. The CCAF is therefore requesting clarification on the
5th paragraph of the Protocol on establishing diplomatic relations
that the two countries, "affirm their mutual recognition of their
existing border as defined by relevant treaties in international law".

If the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh is not quite rightly mentioned in
the "roadmap", its publication will coincide, once in force, with the
Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting scheduled in mid-October in Moldova. In
this context, the point 3 of the Protocol should also be clarified.

The right to self-determination, the right to participate in the
political settlement of the conflict, ensured security, live peacefully
on their land directly should be clearly recognized to the Republic
of NK" connected to the Republic of Armenia.

We, French citizens of Armenian descent, have the right to expect
from the Turkish government an act in accordance with the courage of
the Turkish civil society that handles the question of the Armenian
genocide with responsibility. For the Armenian taboo to disappear
irreversibly in Turkey, we ask Ankara to stop its state denial and to
abrogate as so ossible its repressive arsenal – 301 and 305 articles
of the penal code – that threatens anyone who would offend the dignity
of Turkey by evoking publicly the genocide of the Armenians. It is the
Turkish government’s responsibility to adapt to the message of its
civil society willing to revisit its past and walk in the direction
of history.

Finally, the CCAF reaffirms its attachment to the Armenia-Diaspora
strategic partnership and calls on all the components of the Armenian
nation to reinforce it.