Political Forces say international recognition of the Armenian
Genocide will be a priority

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: `The international recognition of the
Armenian Genocide will be one of priorities of our policy as it stems
from the national security interests,’ secretary of the `Prosperous
Armenia’ party’s parliamentary faction Aram Safaryan said today in
Tsitsernakaberd after paying tribute to the memory of the victims of
the Armenian Genocide. `We welcome the decision of the Armenian
President on suspending the procedure of ratification of the
Armenian-Turkish protocols as all see that especially during the
recent period Turkey is not acting in accordance with the reached
agreement,’ Aram Safaryan pointed out. He said that Armenia showed
that it is not closing the way to the normalization of relations with
Turkey and it is welcomed by the international community too.

`We will continue claiming that demanding of one-sided concessions in
the Nagorno Karabakh issue against the establishment of dialogue and
diplomatic relations with Turkey is unacceptable,’ he said.

Head of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation’s faction Vahan
Hovhannissyan welcomed the step of the president. He said that it is
necessary to show Turkey in a strict way that in conditions of its
behavior the implementation of further activity is impossible.

`Turkey’s wish to snatch from the Armenian side one-sided concessions
remains unchanged,’ Vahan Hovhannissyan noted. He assured that the
process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is
continuative.

More than 20 countries, different international organizations,
including the European Parliament have recognized and condemned the
Armenian Genocide.

Uruguay, Argentina, Cyprus, Russia, Greece, Lebanon, Belgium, Sweden,
Italy, France, Switzerland, Canada, Slovakia, Germany, Netherlands,
Poland, Lithuania, Venezuela, Chile, Vatican and Unrecognized
Catalonian Republic are the ones who condemned the greatest crime of
the 20th century.

About 40 states of America, municipalities of different towns
recognized the crime. The issue on involving resolution condemning the
Armenian Genocide on the agenda of the Israeli Knesset is being
discussed. The number of supporters of the resolution presented in the
US House of Representatives and Senate is increasing.