RESOLUTION URGES END TO PROTOCOLS PROCESS
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Sep 28th, 2009
GLENDALE-The more than 10,000 participants of a public rally on Sunday
in opposition to the Armenia-Turkey protocols unanimously adopted
a strongly-word resolution directed at the Armenian authorities,
rejecting Turkey’s preconditions for establishing relations with
Armenia and demanding the government put an immediate end to the
Turkey-Armenia protocols.
Below is the complete text of the resolution:
Resolution
Based on the imperative of defending the absolute interests of Armenia
and the Armenian people and taking into consideration that the August
31 Protocols on Establishment and Development of Relations between the
Republics of Armenia and Turkey are loaded with dangerous provision
that are counter to those interests, we, the participants of this
public rally declare that:
Whereas, the veracity of the Armenian Genocide is an irrefutable
fact. We find unacceptable that within the context of "implementing
dialogue on the historical dimension" any examination of "historical
records and archives" by a commission or sub-commission on any
level. Such an examination not only will irrevocably halt the process
of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide, but also
completely diminishes the Armenian people’s achievements resulting
from decades of immense and continuous efforts, as well as reality
of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by numerous countries.
Whereas, as members of the United Nations and other international
organizations, Armenia and Turkey have already agreed to, under
acceptable international norms, to acknowledge each other’s borders. To
reaffirm this through a separate agreement and the Republic of
Armenia’s official recognition of Turkey’s current borders is a
concession of our people’s historic, territorial, moral and legal
rights, in the name of establishing inequitable and unjust relation.
Whereas, the principle of the nations’ right to self-determination,
on which hinges the just resolution of the Artsakh Question is visibly
absence from the documents, which contain other irrelevant specifics.
Whereas, the recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the pursuit
of the Armenian Cause (Hai Tahd) are the sole responsibility of the
Armenian people, be they in Armenia or the Diaspora. This is not an
issue of our ancestors or our generation, but rather it is an issue of
the rights of the Armenian people’s future generation. The Armenian
authorities do not have the legal right, in the name of the Armenian
people, to bargain during negotiations with Turkey, the just right of
the Armenian people, especially the issues of the Armenian Genocide,
our occupied historical territories and reparations.
Be it Resolved that
We, the participants of the public rally, by expressing our opposition
and protest, reject any pre-conditions for the establishment of
relations between Armenia and Turkey; and find the announced protocols,
in their current form, unacceptable and dangerous. The signing
of such defeatist protocols by the Armenian government is fraught
with irreversible and heavy consequences. Thus, we demand from the
Armenian government to immediately end all efforts and activities for
the signing and approval of both protocols. Otherwise, the president
of Armenia will bare sole responsibility for future events and will
be treated accordingly by the Armenian people and history.
*The public rally was organized by the Social Democratic Hunchakian
Party, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, the Ramkavar Azadagan
party and Unified Armenian Youth at Pelaconi Park on the corner of
Glenoaks Boulevard and Grandview Street in Glendale.