PETER BRINER: STATEMENT ON GENOCIDE OF ARMENIANS WAS MISINTERPRETED
BERN, AUGUST 11. ARMINFO. The categorical statement ascribed to
Chairman of The Foreign Relations Committee of Swiss Senate Peter
Briner related to withdrawal of the issue of Armenian genocide from
the agenda of the Plenary Sitting of Swiss Senate was distorted and
misinterpreted. Peter Briner informs ARMINFO. It should be noted
that since the beginning of the current week, a number of Mass
Media representatives as well as Swissinfo have spread information
referring to Head of Swiss Senate wherein the latter allegedly says
that massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 will never be a
subject of discussion at the Swiss Senate. Third states should not
interfere and condemn Turkey for the events of 90-years remoteness
and that the Committee agreed that it is not within the competence
of the parliament to consider thew events of 1915 and qualify them
as genocide. Peter Briner says “The mentioned statement is based on
a false citation or a misunderstanding respectively. This is most
regrettable! What I did say was, that at the time when the Swiss House
of Representatives has forwarded an intervention recognizing the
genocide, this had not been an issue in the Senate. So please take
not of the difference: Past sense and not future! The policy of our
Government, and our committee shared its opinion, is that that time
and its terrible events should be investigated by the two countries
involved, i.e. Turkey and Armenia with a committee of historians
of both sides. I am sorry that by not precise reporting you might
have received a message that was not intended at all!” In its turn,
As Journal of Turkish Weekly (JTW) condemns The California Courier
Publisher Harut Sassounian, The JTW will start a legal action in
California against this rude letter. However we consider his letter as
a good example to show the extremist Armenian approach to our readers.
I don’t know what your background or training is, but I am sure you
know nothing about journalism. Your replies to Maral Der Ohanesian
confirm my suspicions about your ignorance. How dare you give a
lecture to her on a subject you know nothing about? Not only your
distorted and perverted version of this news item was full of lies,
every piece of news you have released has been nothing but a pack
of lies. I will be happy to give you one free lesson in journalism:
there is no such thing as Armenian or Turkish journalism. There is
only one kind of universal journalism, which is reporting the truth.
What you added to the ::. news is not the Turkish point of view,
but sheer lies. Maybe lies ARE the Turkish point of view, in which
case you have a point. I would normally list the lies in your news,
but I am sure you do not need my help, since you know the lies that
you have made up. To report such lies and try to convince others
that you are reporting the truth, you must be truly “sharafsiz”! (*)
And you shamelessly call yourself “Editor” and “Dr.”Harut Sassounian
Publisher The California Courier.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress