GERMANY’S POSITION HAS SERIOUS MOTIVE FOR SUPPORT TO DRAFT RESOLUTION
ON GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS
YEREVAN, MARCH 18. ARMINFO. Draft resolution “Commemoration Day of
Armenians on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the masacre on
April 24, 1915 – Germany must promote reconciliation and peace between
Turks and Armenians” stresses the responsibilities of Imperial Germany
that arises from knowing of the events without trying to prevent them
German opinion can easily support this motion. Christoph Bergner MP,
the editor of the draft resolution on genocide, and President of the
German-Caucasian Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag, stated during
the interview to ARMINFO.
According to the deputy, in this connection the position of Germany
has serious grounds for supporting this draft. It is explicitly not a
resolution calling for the acknowledgement of the Armenian Genocide
like the resolution adopted by the French Parliament, but a motion for
promoting dialogue and understanding both within Turkey and between
Turkey and Armenia. The evidence by now is as clear as it was 90 years
ago.
The archives of the German Foreign Ministry are open to all
researchers and have been so for over 50 years (cf. the statement of
the German ambassador to Turkey on March 12). These archives contain
well-known evidence for the events 1915-1916, because Germany being a
close ally of the Ottoman Empire had excellent information on all
proceedings within the Ottoman borders. The documents concerning the
Armenian subjects of the Ottoman Empire have even recently been
published on the internet, Christoph Bergner said.