CYPRUS’ GAROYIAN: HISTORIC TRUTH ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUST BE RESTORED

Financial Mirror
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Nov 23 2009
Cyprus

President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian has
underlined the need to restore the historic truth as regards the
Armenian Genocide.

"We ask for justice. We demand the restoration of the historic truth,
not its falsification, which is the attempt of the Turkish government,
which uses methods and so called initiatives for peace with Armenia",
he stressed.

Speaking after a mass at the Armenian Church in Nicosia, he said
that "on days like this one, I believe we have the duty to remember
the Armenian Genocide and reaffirm our steadfast faith towards the
struggle for international recognition of that terrible crime which
marked the fate and the course of the Armenian people".

Garoyian pointed out that "justice and freedom is what we want for our
common country, Cyprus, which for 35 years now suffers the consequences
of the Turkish invasion and occupation".

"We want a just, functional and viable solution, that would restore
the unity of Cyprus’ territory, its people, its institutions and that
would safeguard human rights for all its people, Greek Cypriots and
Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Armenians and Latins and give an end
to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, to Ankara’s policy to illegally
bring settlers to the island, to Turkish guarantees and intervention
rights", he went on to say.

Garoyian said that the solution in Cyprus must be based on
international law, the UN values and decisions, human rights and the
EU values and principles.

Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and
occupied its northern third.

The Parliament of Cyprus was the first in the EU to adopt a resolution
recognising the Armenian Genocide, in 1982.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress