U.S. SENATOR CALLS THE PROTOCOLS "ABSURD"

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15:00 / 10/05/2009

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee member and outspoken advocate
of international affirmation of the Armenian Genocide, Bob Menendez
called the regulations of Armenia-Turkey Protocols "frankly absurd",
Asbarez daily reports. Menendez said: "I do not think that Armenia
should be pressured into anything that is not in their national
interests or in the long-term national interests of the U.S."

Commenting on the Protocols’ provision on the creation of historians’
sub-commission, the Senator stated that "it is an insult to Armenian
people. It is an insult to the memory of the victims. It is an insult
to the top scholars who have clearly spoken on this issue and issued
their unequivocal conclusions. It is time that Turkey recognizes
it and accepts it. It is time that the world acknowledges this fact
of history and moves on towards a viable peace that honors the true
history of the Armenian people."