GERMANY ROLE IS TO RECONCILE ARMENIA AND TURKEY
Pan Armenian News
03.05.2005 05:41
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Like other countries aspiring for accession to
the EU, Turkey should have all preconditions for that, noted Federal
Government Commissioner for Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance
in the FRG Foreign Ministry, Co-Chair of Union/90 Green faction of
the German Bundestag Claudia Roth. In her words, the Armenian issue
is a rather important one and the investigation of one’s own history
should issue from the interests of Turkey itself. «The events of 1915
are undoubted a crime against humanity,» Claudia Roth noted. «We
Germans have a historical responsibility for the Holocaust and we know
how important it is to remember about it,» she noted. She hoped for
Turkey nevertheless to be «able to cancel the taboo and deal with
the problem of relations with Armenia.» She also reminded Germans
are concerned with the events of 1915. The military and political
leaders of the German Empire were informed of the occurrences in
Anatolia, however it did not intervene. She also said she was sure a
joint Armenian-Turkish Commission to investigate facts of the Armenian
Genocide should be formed, however in her words the Commission should
be indeed independent. «Germany’s role in the question comes to
promoting reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia,» Roth stated.
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