TO THOSE WHO AVOID VISITING THE GENOCIDE MEMORIAL

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13/05/10

The Heritage Party and its parliamentary fraction consider the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president Mevlut
CavuÅ~_oglu’s decision to not visit the Armenian Genocide Memorial,
at Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan, to be a behavior that is unbecoming of
the head of this prestigious European organization. And during their
meeting with Mr. CavuÅ~_oglu today, Heritage’s MPs will inform him
about this, in person.

We deem impermissible the fact that PACE’s current president is
acting against the spirit of the 1987, 2000, 2002 and 2005 decisions
by the European Parliament-the directly elected legislative body
of the European Union, which has formally recognized the Armenian
genocide-and is being guided by a whim that is solely characteristic of
a nationalist. This conduct is also a challenge against the universal
norms, the benchmarks of European values, and the aspirations of
Turkey which pretends to enter into the European family.

With such demeanor, Mr. CavuÅ~_oglu explicitly confesses that
he does not consider himself as the head of an influential
institution-comprising a multinational European family-that pursues
the implementation of democratic processes and the protection of
human rights, but, rather, as a Turkish official who, presently having
assumed the duties of the PACE president, seems to want to make use
of this institution’s leverage for the benefit of Turkey’s nowadays
leaders and Azerbaijan.

In the view of Heritage, Mevlut CavuÅ~_oglu, who, because of the
fixation to deny the tragedy of the Armenian people-who have been
subjected to a genocide and have lost their homeland-and disguising
his current official stay in Armenia as that of a working visit
and refusing to stop at Tsitsernakaberd, is one of those Turkish
politicians whose statements and political conduct demonstrate that he
is a modern-day follower of the Kemalist-Bolshevik conspiracy "deal"
of the past.

It is apparent, therefore, as to the objectives Mr. CavuÅ~_oglu
is pursuing through his unconcealed steps being taken toward the
new makeup of the PACE subcommittee on the Mountainous Karabagh
Republic affairs. With this statement, Heritage yet again affirms
for this Turkish political figure, and his supporters and probable
"instructors," that the real issue at hand is the de jure international
recognition of the Mountainous Karabagh Republic, which is already
established de facto. And the outstanding matter is the return of
the territories which, defined by Artsakh’s constitution and under
international law, belong to Artsakh and which are under Azerbaijani
occupation to this day. And PACE’s leadership can, and is obligated
to, mediate with the aim of peacefully resolving these questions.

The Heritage Party once more calls Armenia’s authorities to officially
recognize the established independence of the Mountainous Karabagh
Republic. And no Turkish official, nor any other foreigner who
refuse visiting Tsitsernakaberd, can erase, or send into oblivion,
the reality of the Armenian Genocide and the Great Dispossession of
Homeland, and the just cause and the truthful vision of all Armenians.

The Heritage Party and Parliamentary Fraction

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress