OVERCOMING HEROICALLY

12:45:15 – 05/03/2010
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Adoption by the U.S. Congress House Committee on Foreign Relations of
Resolution 252 on the recognition of the genocide is success for us,
says ARF faction member, head of the NA Commission on Foreign
Relations Armen Rustamyan.

According to him, the number of voters for the bill was great in the
beginning, but the only reason because of which the number of voters
against it rose were the protocols the proof of which is that many
Congressmen in their speeches mentioned that the bill adoption will
harm the normalization process between Armenia and Turkey. The
protocols are now evident to be an obstacle for the international
recognition of the genocide. The genocide issue is not a matter of
commerce, and any country respecting human right must acknowledge it,
says Rustamyan.

According to him, for the first time, serious progress was recorded
against the background of the protocols.

`If the recognition of the genocide will bring about the failure of
the protocols, better for us. We are playing Turkey’s game waiting for
the latter to ratify the protocols. The international community came
out not to extort pressure on Turkey, but the contrary. Turkey added
its blackmail in relation to the Karabakh issue too. We created a
difficult situation for us and are heroically overcoming it’, said
Rustamyan.