Serzh Sargsyan: Turkish authorities will have to reckon with the fact
of Armenian genocide sooner or later

2009-10-03 13:15:00

ArmInfo. The fact of the Armenian genocide does not need any proofs and
the Turkish authorities will have to reckon with this fact of crime and
with pain and sufferings of the Armenian people expelled from their
motherland, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said at the meeting with
the Armenian communities of Europe in Paris.

The president said the only issue that needs discussion is how to help
the people of Turkey to be impartial when studying the own history. As
regards the concerns that normalization of relations with Turkey may
hinder international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, the
president said: "Of course, it will hinder this process if the
Armenians worldwide begin to believe in that. Quite on the contrary,
the process will attain a new quality if the Armenians see opening
opportunities and awake with renewed vigor." As regards the initialed
protocols, Serzh Sargsyan believes that the parties have managed to
move towards the way of establishing mechanisms to settle the problem,
which will become reality due to further combined work. "I think that
we have successfully got the document that does not make anything
inevitable and opens opportunities for working in all directions," the
president said.