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18:12 ¢ 25.09.09

Signing Protocols after Pre-Signing Them Is Mere Formality: Miatsum
Member Sefilian

National Initiative Miatsum members gathered near Myasnikian’s
monument before heading for the embassies of OSCE Minsk Group co-chair
countries and handing over their statement addressed to the presidents
of those countries.

The statement, which they submitted, read:

`On behalf of the Armenian people living in Armenia and Diaspora,
Miatsum National Initiative, proceeding by the unrelenting will to
recover long-lasting peace, stability and rule of international law in
the region, states that US President Barack Obama, Russian Federation
President Dmitry Medvedev and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy, who
officially accepted the Madrind Principles’ Armenian-Turkish fake
`reconciliation,’ are initiating a mutually agreed policy to provoke
the next genocide of the Armenian nation and to ruin the Armenian
statehood. Miatsum National Initiative calls for vigilance and
firmness on the part of the US, Russian and French presidents to
refrain from attempts to provoke a new genocide of Armenians, to
resign from guilty assaults that result in doubtful benefits of a
current geopolitical nature, to undertake steps to establish real
peace in the region and to comprehensively re-establish the rights of
the Republic of Armenia violated by the genocide.’

`The Protocols are already signed. The re-signing of them is a mere
formality. The main risk will be when the parliaments ratify the
Protocols. I am sure that our history will neither start nor end with
October 13. This process will not end quickly. Therefore, one
shouldn’t get disappointed. Today we fight in the field of advocacy,
we voice our thoughts publicly, but I am sure that the moment will
come when we’ll be able to raise our entire nation and prevent the
anti-Armenian process, which, in essence is the result of our inner
state of affairs,’ Jirair Sefilian stated.

Miatsum member, film director Tigran Khzmalian, in speaking with
journalists, said that it pains him that Serzh Sargsyan is subject to
so much outside oppression.

`In our opinion, the Armenian president must be liable only for his
people’s oppression,’ Khzmalian said.

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