EXPERT SAYS ATTEMPTS ARE MADE TO GIVE POLITICAL COLORING TO RECOGNITION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
Panorama.am
17:29 24/08/2009
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals created Code of Civil Procedure which
extended the deadline for suing on life insurance policies issued to
"any person of Armenian or other ancestry living in the Ottoman Empire
during the period of 1915 to 1923, inclusive, who died, was deported,
or escaped to avoid persecution during that period," and expanded
state court jurisdiction over such claims.
Today, the director of Oriental Studies Institute Ruben Safrastyan
told at news conference that he has been informed that the two judges
were pro to the previous decision but the ruling judge was against.
"We could say that this is attempt to give political coloring to the
process of recognizing Armenian Genocide, which is done by a court
representative," expert said.
Expert says American disposition upon Armenian Genocide has nothing
to do with that decision. But the expert has also stressed that the
U.S. strategy in South Caucasus has much changed getting different
direction. OSCE Minsk Group American co-chair Matthew Bryza’s
statements have much to do with it, as well as U.S. President Barack
Obama’s decision to relate ties with Muslim world.