EITHER APOLOGY OR RESIGNATION
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[05:32 pm] 30 March, 2007
"Hasmik Poghosyan, RA Minister of Culture, must apologise in front of
all Armenians for sending a delegation to the opening ceremony of the
Surb Khach (St. Cross); otherwise we shall demand her resignation,"
Narek Galstyan, member of "Sargis Tkhruny" Youth Union announced today.
"Mr. Gyurginyan, didn’t you feel ashamed on seeing the picture of
Ataturk on the wall of the church, while cuting the red ribbon. Was the
church built by the Turks?" Narek Galstyan addressed to Mr. Gyurginyan,
deputy head of the ministry.
"People must have a chance to pray and burn incense inside the
church. Mr. Mutafyan, Archbishop of Polis, and Gagik Gyurginyan, deputy
minister of Culture are top blame for this farse. They cognized that
Surb Khach is a Turkish cathedral. They must have taken a cross to the
opening ceremony and present it to the church," Sahak Manoukyan says.
In his words the renovation of the church has political motivation as
Turkey wants to obscure the historical facts and to show how civilized
the country has become towards Armenia.
The rehabilitation of the Armenian single church in the territory is
not only inadmissible but also disgraceful.
Members of "Sargis Tkhrouni" will organise a protest action opposite
the Government premises and demand Hasmik Poghosyan’s resignation in
case the latter doesn’t apologise before public.