RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS ENTERING A NEW STAGE
Aysor
April 19 2010
Armenia
The process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide
is entering a new stage of discussions, related to the issue of
responsibility and compensations, told journalists deputy director
of the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide Suren Manukyan.
"Today’s situation is radically different from previous stages. Its
main difference is that during the last years we were stimulating the
processes of recognition of the genocide; these processes were some
kind of preparatory stages, aimed at informing the world communities
and organisations about the 1915 Genocide against Armenians," he said
adding that today the issue of the 1915 Genocide is a undisputed fact
in the world.
"The world recognizes the 1915 Genocide and is ready to acknowledge
that the committed crimes must have its consequences. Today both in
Armenia and beyond it everything possible has already been done.
Documents and surveys are enough to provide a basis for neither
single doubt on the issue of Genocide. And the nations which haven’t
yet recognized the Genocide are taking this step due to political
considerations," he said.
"We are on the stage when we haven’t got problems with recognition,
and we are moving towards the second stage – we are solving issues
of responsibility and compensations," he said adding that relations
between Germany and Israel can be accepted as a model in this sense.