WHO IS THE CLAIMANT?
16:08:22 – 05/03/2010
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Many experts argue that the chances of adoption of Resolution 252 in
the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress are not so high. And
if Congress, nevertheless, puts to the vote and will vote ‘against’,
it will be a strong moral blow to the Armenian people. This will mean
that the U.S. not only refused discussing this issue but it also
refused accepting the fact of the genocide. The Armenian
organizations, apparently, are to find out the likelihood of the
recognition in the Congress, and in case of uncertainty, they should
prevent the vote and demand that the resolution was removed from the
agenda.
The process of the genocide recognition is taking place on an
incomprehensible plane. From the legal point of view, the defendant is
the Republic of Turkey, which does everything for the genocide not to
be recognized because it is afraid of territorial claims. The claimant
is unknown – it is either the Republic of Armenia, or the Armenian
lobby or the Congress, the U.S. or some `kind people’.
Besides, the supporters of the resolution in the U.S. House Committee
on Foreign Relations bring up exceptionally moral arguments, like
genocide is a crime against humanity, the U.S. is to prove that it is
a follower of human values. Opponents of the resolution put forward
political arguments- Turkey helped the U.S.in Iraq and Afghanistan,
the Armenian-Turkish relations and so on. Nobody, none of the
congressmen disputed the fact of genocide. That is, in moral terms,
genocide, in principle, is recognized.
In addition, on the day of the vote in the U.S. Congress, the Turkish
parliament decided to ratify the agreement on the gas pipeline Nabucco
which has been in the parliament for long. Another incomprehensible
argument.
On the official and daily level, Armenians affirm that genocide does
not have to become matter of haggle and political speculations. But
all this process reminds a proper political haggle.