Author: Boshkezenian Garik

THE "NATION’S ILLNESS" REVEALED

A1Plus.am
February 02, 2010

Things were rather heated during the hour of statements at the
National Assembly today with sharp criticisms of the authorities,
the opposition and the presses.

The one to start opening "fire" was Zaruhi Postanjyan who talked about
the victims of the murders of March 1, violation of human rights and
the constant infringements upon the dignity of RA citizens.

The next speech was against Zaruhi Postanjyan. Head of the ARF
faction Vahan Hovhannisyan was simply amazed at the fact that the
opposition’s legitimacy, and not that of the authorities, can be
called into question and turned into a topic for discussion at the
Council of Europe which had to decide who the opposition is by a
vote. "You wanted it to be determined by a vote, and it did," said
Hovhannisyan, noting that those steps not only dishonored Armenia,
but showed the illness that we suffer from.

Deputy of "Heritage" faction Armen Martirosyan presented who were
humiliating the country and asked whether it were those who killed,
those who demanded revelation of the murders, those who falsified
elections, or those who fought against electoral violations and those
who were sentenced for their political views.

In response to the activities of Zaruhi Postanjyan at the PACE,
Edward Sharmazanov announced that the policy of bringing the big guy
on Armenia has turned into a working style.

Representative of the Social-Democrat (Hunchakian) Party Vardan
Khachatryan touched upon the presses and demanded a denial from the
presses that are behind the walls of the university and see who is
inside and how the security guards accompany him out of the university.

Representative of BHK (Prosperous Armenia) Naira Zohrabyan expressed
concern over the information war which Armenia always loses and
recalled that Aliyev’s fund is spending millions of dollars on
anti-propaganda, while the Armenian side is not giving an adequate
response.

Ruben Gevorgyan made a unique statement. He was concerned about
Turkish-Armenian relations and the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. In regard to the latest scandal in Turkey, he said:
"The Turks thought the world would listen to what they had to say,
but they were wrong."

As for all attempts to tie the Turkish-Armenian relations with the
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, he said: "They don’t understand that Artsakh
is the spirit of Armenians. Our spirit is fighting for Artsakh."

IT’S ALREADY OUT OF OUR HANDS

The Civilitas Foundation.
Thursday, 28 January 2010 12:21

-Mr. Oskanian, how do you assess the fact that in Sochi, the sides
agreed on the preamble to the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement documents?

Is this in sync with the initial principle guiding these discussions
that "nothing is agreed until everything is agreed?"

-That principle exists precisely for such complicated issues as
Karabakh; every sentence of every relevant document is interrelated
and every word is consequential. For this very reason, in agreeing
on any public declaration, utmost caution must be exercised since not
everything in the negotiating document is agreed to. In that regard,
the declaration you cite, is at least cause for worry, since as a
result of similar earlier "agreements," whether the Meindorf or Athens
declarations, Azerbaijan received plenty to use to its advantage.

-After the meeting, we learned that the sides were given two weeks
during which to present proposals on disputed matters. Doesn’t that
mean that they’re pressuring the sides to settle quickly, or has the
process already entered its final stage? Especially considering that
the OSCE Special Rapporteur for NK, Goran Lennmarker expressed hope
that it would be possible to get the sides to arrive at an agreement
by spring?

-Pressure only counts if you submit to it. It’s possible to place
deadlines, but only if within those timeframes, documents and decisions
are not adopted that go against our interests. Taking into account
recent experience when in the framework of the Armenia-Turkey process,
under deadlines, documents were created which do in fact go counter
to our interests, then deadlines are indeed cause for concern.

-Overall, how do you evaluate the latest developments in the
Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process?

-The thing that worries me most is Turkey’s active involvement and
the fact that the Armenia-Turkey process has further complicated the
Karabakh settlement. Now, all our energy must be aimed at separating
these two processes, and at the same time, finding a way to address
the increasingly more complicated challenge of defending our rights
during the negotiations.

-In comparison to the increased activity surrounding the NK
negotiations, one would think the Armenia-Turkey reconciliation
process was on hold. Doesn’t this mean that before moving to ratify
the protocols Turkey is indeed waiting for progress on the Karabakh
question, as so many Turkish high officials have frequently stated? In
your opinion, is the settlement process in fact progressing based on
that condition?

-In principle, continuing to try to predict when and whether Turkey
will ratify the protocols, and under what conditions, is already
irrelevant. From the beginning, it was clear where this process would
end up. Turkey has already received the minimum to which it aspired
both in regard to the content of the documents, and in exploiting the
entire process for its own ends. Now it’s trying to gain the maximum
by achieving a speedy conclusion to the Nagorno-Karabakh problem.

-During the last OSCE ministerial council, member states’ foreign
ministers accepted a document that said that Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
must be resolved according to three principles of the Helsinki Final
Act — the principles of non-use of force, territorial integrity,
and the right of peoples to self-determination, while in the Madrid
principles, the issue of Karabakh’s status will follow the return of
territory and refugees. Isn’t there the danger that in the case of
the Madrid principles, the principle of national self-determination
in regards Nagorno-Karabakh will not be decisive?

-The problem is not in the sequence of the principles; documents which
confirm that the solution of the NK conflict must be based on the two
principles — territorial integrity and self-determination — must be
avoided so long as Azerbaijan has not publicly acknowledged that the
people of NK have the right to adopt any manifestation of their right
to self-determination, and so long as the details of the application
of that right to self-determination have not yet been clarified.

-How do you assess the constitutional court decision and Turkey’s
uproar in response? Would it be right that the parliament ratifies
the protocols with reservations, as the Dashnaksutyun proposes?

-We should call a spade a spade. This is not the time to be evenhanded,
and play both sides of the fence. This simply further complicates the
situation, as I believe, everyone’s had ample time to comprehend. From
the beginning, these documents could not have served as the foundation
on which our two countries could build a stable relationship. There
was no need to waste a year to try to persuade each other, lose time,
and to divert attention from more significant problems.

-How do you assess the news that there are already steps being taken
towards arriving at the participation of Nagorno-Karabakh in the
negotiations? After determining the principles of the settlement,
will Karabakh’s participation not be merely a formal step, to keep
up appearances?

-It seems there hasn’t been official confirmation of this. But that
without Nagorno-Karabakh’s agreement, there can be no resolution to
this issue – this must be an irrevocable and undeniable principle
of the Armenian side. As to whether their participation at that time
will be more formal, than significant, will depend on the degree and
extent to which Karabakh’s authorities have been involved and engaged
in the development and acceptance of those principles.

-Of the co-chair countries, is it the Russian Federation’s desires
that are the determining ones? Is the Russian Federation not using
the Karabakh conflict to resolve its own economic, territorial and
geopolitical issues – that is, taking into account recent events,
such as their arrangement with Azerbaijan to buy a large quantity of
gas, and the mutually beneficial agreements arrived at during Prime
Minister Erdogan’s visit to Moscow?

-I am convinced that Russia does seek a settlement, in fact, exactly
for the reasons stated here. With the Karabakh problem settled,
Russia will be freer to deepen its relationship with Armenia for its
own strategic interests, and with Azerbaijan for geopolitical and
energy reasons. This means that it would be short-sighted to make
plans or calculations based on the belief that regardless of how
things develop, Armenia would receive Russia’s unconditional support.

-With the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict or the Armenia-Turkey
reconciliation processes, what role or interest does or can Iran have?

This question was raised following Robert Kocharian’s visit to Iran.

Does his visit in fact have any connection to this question?

-The question about the second president’s trip perhaps you should
direct towards him. As for Iran, in contrast, for example with Turkey,
although it isn’t directly involved, its balanced position has had a
positive effect on the Karabakh settlement process. Of course, Iran,
too has interests. We talked about Russia’s interests already. Other
countries, too, have interests in our region. Each state moves based
on its own interest. But that shouldn’t be perceived fatalistically.

Armenia’s task is to clearly picture, articulate and defend our own
interests, and not just to go with the flow.

MOHAMED KHODR – WITH BLAIR-BUSH LIES, MUSLIMS DIED
By Mohamed Khodr

Palestine Think Tank
Free Minds for a Free Palestine

Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine,
Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

blair soldiers"For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk
like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men" -Jeremiah
5:26-29, (Bible: Old Testament)

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be
maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as
his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

For 100 years the Arab and Muslim world have known that when it comes
to European and American imperialistic designs on the Middle East
there are two separate universes with separate political, economic,
racial and legal standards. With self assured arrogance, hypocrisy
and double standards western powers reserved the "right of might"
to inflict devastating invasions, occupations, mass murders, ethnic
cleansing and the Anti-Jewish cleansing of Europe by gifting a land,
without ownership or right, to European Jews who proceeded to emulate
European colonialism to attack and ethnically cleanse an innocent
people from their land. Israel was born by England’s illegal gifting
of a foreign land and subsequently immorally supported by the United
States at the expense of a hapless population living under the most
dire and brutal of occupations.

Throughout the history of their imperialistic, colonial designs those
western powers and Israel, the fate of the indigenous populations
was never an issue or matter of concern to these warring states. From
the Native Americans, North and South, to Africans, Arabs, Muslims,
Asians and the Aborigines of Australia and New Zealand, their lives,
history, religion, culture and language were fodder for extinction
to satisfy the economic greed of western powers.

In 1917, a simple typed letter of 68 words signed by Lord Balfour,
foreign minister of England and addressed to the Jewish banker,
Lord Rothschild, proscribed Palestine, still under Ottoman rule,
"a national homeland for the Jews." It became known as the "Balfour
Declaration" and used a manifesto by Zionists to justify their illegal,
immoral and genocidal design on Palestine.

"In Palestine, we do not propose even to go through the form
of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the
country…Zionism, be it right or wrong, is rooted in age-old
traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder
import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now
inhabit that ancient land."

– Lord Balfour, UK Foreign Minister

>>From David Lloyd George ("We have the right to bomb niggers"), Prime
Minister of England 1916-1922 – to Lord Arthur Balfour, UK Foreign
Minister 1916-1919 and author of the 1917 Balfour Declaration – to
President Truman – to the current Vice President of the United States,
Joseph Biden, all have declared themselves to be "Zionists".

Not since World War II has one western leader, not even one, ever
been charged or prosecuted for war crimes against humanity. While
Holocaust museums are being erected around the world, often at
taxpayers’ expense, not one single museum in a western capital, with
the exception of Latin America, has ever been built to memorialize
the genocides against African Americans, Latinos, Africans, Arabs,
Muslims, Asians and Aborigines – all victims of imperial holocausts.

These days in London an "inquiry", not trial, named after its
chair, the Chicot Inquiry, has been looking into the reasons and
justifications that led to the massively illegal war and devastation
of an innocent nation, Iraq.

So far, former British government officials have presented evidence
that the war was "illegal", did not have support from the U.N., nor
from the entire world except for UK and US, – that Tony Blair had
been told that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and that
intelligence was "sexed up" and manipulated to justify Blair’s war
crimes against Iraq.

Blair launched his war crime against Iraq with the same zeal, lies
and fear mongering propaganda used by George Bush, Dick Cheney and
Paul Wolfowitz. Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of the Department
of Defense, called by Time Magazine, the "Architect" of the Iraq War,
was asked in a Vanity Fair interview, May 2003, why was the Iraq War
based on Saddam’s alleged possession of WMD’s. This time, he actually
told the truth. Wolfowitz stated:

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass
destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

As a second reason he stated that the war gave the U.S. the opportunity
to withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia where Saudi hostility against
the presence of the troops was high.

Tony Blair’s lies to the British people, despite their immense
opposition to the war, and to Parliament have been aptly documented.

But this arrogant war criminal, ironically a MidEast "peace envoy",
told the Chicot Inquiry that he did not lie about his justifications
for war and unconscionably stood by his false assertions for the
devastating illegal war. He was unrepentant and unremorseful for the
millions of dead, injured and displaced Iraqis. Nor was he repentant
for the sacrifice of British soldiers. In true narcissistic and
pathological fashion he said he would make the same decision to invade
Iraq again today. Even Saddam’s death wouldn’t have stopped their
messianic psychosis to invade Iraq. Got to do it for Oil and Israel.

Blair quotes that reveal a pathological liar with no conscience but
possessing a hypocritical racist soul, much like all Israeli leaders,
including today’s war criminal du jour, Netanyahu.

"Yes, there are consequences of war. If we remove Saddam by force,
people will die and some will be innocent. And we must live with the
consequences of our actions, even the unintended ones."

"Ridding the world of Saddam would be an act of humanity. It is
leaving him there that is in truth inhumane."

"The document discloses that his military planning allows for some
of the WMD to be ready within 45 minutes of an order to use them."

-Foreword to UK Government dossier on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction

Tony Blair’s arrogant testimony to the Chicot Inquiry is a
blatant genocidal example of a western leader trying to justify the
unjustifiable. Both Blair and Bush knew beforehand that Iraq had no
WMD’s and that their falsified intelligence came from an alcoholic
liar ("Curveball") and Iraqi dissident, Ahmad Chalabi, whose lies gave
Blair and Bush the weapons for mass destruction of Iraq. The British
Intelligence even plagiarized statements from a U.S. PhD student’s
thesis on Iraq which included the outrageous claim that Saddam can
launch WMD’s within 45 minutes.

Blair, in true contempt to truth and history, used Bush’s fallback
position that 9/11 changed their outlook on world affairs and became
their pretext for a world "war on terror". Blair’s testimony showcased
that the best defense was a good offense.

The U.N., Fourth Geneva Convention, I.C.C., and International Laws
were created by western powers and thus easily manipulated and
selectively applied by them to the third world and not to themselves
who self ascribe the right to devastate in the name of self defense,
even pre-emptively. Using such logic any nation can invade another
pre-emptively if it can manufacture hysteria, lies and self perceived
threats to itself. Thus China is totally justified to invade Taiwan,
Russia can invade Poland and the Czech Republic given America’s
deployment of missile defense systems, Cuba can invade the U.S.,
Turkey can invade Armenia and so on.

Within this cabal of righteous powers is Israel, a nation born
out of violence, terrorism, and ethnic cleansing; a nation that has
repeatedly launched pre-emptive wars using the western mantra of "self
defense". Israel, a state unlike any other that commits genocides
with total impunity daring the world to criticize much less consider
prosecuting its leaders for documented crimes against humanity,
as evidenced by the Goldstone Report.

Not satisfied with the bloodshed in Iraq, Blair has the audacity to
call for the same devastation of the Muslim nation du jour, Iran,
thereby joining the Israeli motivated policy of "next stop, Tehran".

Iran, like Iraq, poses no threat to either, the west or Israel,
even if it does possess nuclear weapons. Would Iran commit suicide or
would it insanely nuke Israel thereby committing a holocaust against
Palestinians, the very people Iran loves and defends? Would it destroy
Jerusalem, while causing massive nuclear radiation in the entire
region and risking massive nuclear retaliation from Israel, a state in
possession of hundreds of nuclear weapons and a non-signatory to the
Non Proliferation Treaty? Blaming, then bombing Muslims seems to be
Blair’s, Obama’s, and Israel’s policy. Nuclear Israel, demonstrably
a criminal nation, is untouchable while non-nuclear Muslim nations
are bombable. Justice lies in the eye of the criminal.

TRUTH has always been the enemy of western civilization and in due
time will be its undoing.

AZERBAIJANI TEAM OFFICIALLY REFUSED TO COME TO YEREVAN

News.am
18:54 / 02/01/2010

Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestling national team officially refused
to participate in the World Cup 2010 in Yerevan, February 12-14.

Azerbaijan’s Wrestling Federation has already informed FILA about
its decision.

Earlier, the Vice-President of Azerbaijani Wrestling Federation
Namik Aliyev said that Azeri sportsmen should get ready for European
Championship in Baku on April. "As for the refusal of the invitation,
we want our sportsmen to be well prepared for European Championship
in Baku," Aliyev stated in his interview with Azerisport.

Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup 2010 will be held in Yerevan, on
February 12-14. Teams from Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, Iran
and Cuba will participate as well.

TURKEY-ARMENIA TRADE VOLUME REACHES $300 MLN

World Bulletin
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 11:41

Kaan Soyak said on Tuesday that 300 million USD of trade volume
between Turkey and Armenia was a success.

Turkish-Armenian Business Development Council (TABDC) Co-Chairman Kaan
Soyak said on Tuesday that 300 million USD of trade volume between
Turkey and Armenia was a success.

Speaking to A.A, Soyak recalled that Armenian Chamber of Commerce
announced the trade volume between the two countries as 300 million
USD in 2009.

Noting that TABDC calculated the trade volume as 150 million USD,
Soyak said that World Bank predicted this figure as 200 million USD.

He said that the trade between Armenia and Turkey was made via third
countries like Georgia and Iran. He added that it was difficult to
calculate a certain trade figure.

There is no official trade between Turkey and Armenia as the borders
between the two countries are not open.

Turkey and Armenia signed protocols on October 10, 2009 to normalize
relations between the two countries.

AVETIK GRIGORYAN PRECEDES ZAVEN ANDRIASYAN

Aysor.am
Friday, January 29

On the 7th round of the Armenian men’s chess tournament Avetik
Grigoryan and Zaven Melqumyan ended the game with Arthur Chibukhchyan
and Hrant Melqumyan in draw. Avetik Grigoryan continues leading the
tournament list with confidence preceding Zaven Andriasyan with one
point as usual.

Robert Hovhannisyan resumed his game at last and took a victory over
Artashes Minasyan. Davit Kalashyan took a victory over Tigran L.

Petrosyan and Davit G. Petrosyan and Tigran Kotanjyan received a half
point each.

The tournament list after the 7th round

Avetik Grigoryan-5,5 points Zaven Andriasyan-4,5 Tigran L. Petrosyan-4
Artashes Minasyan-3,5 Arthur Chibukhchyan-3,5 Hrant Melkumyan-3,5
Robert Hovhannisyan-3,5 Davit Kalashyan-2,5 Tigran Kotanjyan-2,5
Davit G. Petrosyan-2

VERBATIM RECORD OF PRESS CONFERENCE OF RA PRIME MINISTER TIGRAN SARGSYAN AND GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER NIKA GILAURI

Tues day, 26 January 2010

RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan – Dear Colleagues, I am glad to
welcome my Georgian counterpart to Yerevan. We have agreed on all the
target spheres of cooperation. The agenda covered several fields of
economic, social and cultural activity. It is my pleasure to state
that we have instructed task force representatives to include all
concerned arrangements in the minutes of today’s meeting. We are
convinced that this sitting of the intergovernmental commission will
boost bilateral cooperation.

Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri – I would like to greet you all
and thank the Prime Minister of Armenia for such a warm welcome. I
express my appreciation of the work done by every task force expert
over the past few days. It was a difficult mission which led them to a
final agreement over the long-discussed items on the agenda. The 8th
sitting of the intergovernmental commission was exciting in that it
covered issues from all spheres of cooperation – cultural, social,
energy-related and macroeconomic questions. I am hopeful that the
next 9th sitting to be held in Georgia will be as much effective
and, on this occasion, I wish to extend an invitation to my Armenian
counterpart. Once again, I express appreciation and conviction that
this visit will build on our traditional ties of friendship.

Question to the Prime Minister of Georgia – To what extend is Georgia
interested in the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border from the
economic standpoint? Have you made any estimates as to the expected
transit revenue losses and, also, are you going to reconsider the
tariffs applicable on transit and transportation of goods?

Answer – Any regional conflict settlement is welcome. We welcome
the opening of the Armenian-Turkish border and the settlement of
bilateral relations. As far as tariffs are concerned, I think the
opening of border will not affect them, though all countries in our
region inclusive of Georgia and Armenia are supposed to benefit from
diversification.

Question to the prime ministers – You have already mentioned those
areas involving task force experts. What arrangements have been made
in the energy sector?

Prime Minister of Georgia – We maintain sufficiently good relations
in the field of energy. There were a number of arrangements made by
the time I was minister of energy. Today as well, we have signed an
agreement on construction of a 400kV transmission line. I feel it
will benefit both Armenia and Georgia.

Prime Minister of Armenia – It was a key measure featuring on the 2010
agenda of my government. Appropriate funding will be earmarked, and
I am convinced that engineering works will be provided a significant
momentum this year.

Question to the Prime Minister of Georgia – What do you think of
Armenia’s role in the settlement of Russian-Georgian relations?

Answer – I would like to see a role to be played by Russia itself.

Russia has imposed restrictions on a number of fields. As to the
opening of the Upper Lars border checkpoint, I believe it will be
to the advantage of Armenia. I mean Russia should refrain from all
kinds of bans and restrictions.

HEAVY SNOW BLOCKS SELIM PASS

ArmInfo
2010-01-26 11:02:00

ArmInfo. Heavy snow has blocked Selim pass again.

The Ministry of Transport and Communication of Armenia website reports
that snowfall is continuing almost in the whole territory of Armenia.

In central and northern regions there is snowstorm. Ground is
ice-covered in Shirak and Gegharkunik regions. The weather is cloudy
in Yerevan.

HISTORIANS AND SCHOLARS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES FROM ARMENIA ARE INVITED TO TAKE PART AT UC BERKELEY’S WORKSHOP

Noyan Tapan
Jan 26, 2010

BERKELEY, JANUARY 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The Institute of
Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ISEEES) at the University
of California, Berkeley (UCB), in collaboration with the Caucasus
Research Resource Centers (CRRC), is holding a two-week workshop at
UCB from April 17 to May 1.

According to in the workshop can participate
citizens of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, scholars who hold a
"Kandidatskaya" degree, scholars who have a level of proficiency in
written and spoken English.

The organizers are waiting for the applications from Armenia,
Azerbaijian and Georgia’s scholars to participate in the workshop.

EUROPEAN ARMENIAN FEDERATION For Justice & Democracy
Avenue de la Renaissance 10
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tel/ Fax: +32 2 732 70 27/26
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DENIERS OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE SHOULD BE PUNISHED IN EUROPE

The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy wishes to
highlight the case of Armand Sag, a Dutchman of Turkish origin, who
falsified on the blog `_Dagelijkse Standaard_’ (Daily Standard),
the remarks of a Dutch politician referring to the Armenian Genocide.
According to the press, the Turkish blogger refused to apologize for
his fallacious assertions, confirming his intentions as a genocide
denier, which are widely evident throughout his website under the
pre-text of being a `researcher on the 1915 events’.
The European Armenian Federation points out, among many cases in
Belgium, the January 17th concert of Arif Sirin in Saint Josse, where
the singer performed his songs glorifying Hrant Dink’s murderers.
The organizer was a Turkish association affiliated with the extremist
right movement of the Gray Wolves, which is widely known to justify
the extermination of the Armenians and the repression of other
minorities. Of great concern was the active role played by Socialist
Provincial Parliament member, Mr Yves Lardinois, who serves as
President of his citizen platform in the area.
The Federation recalls the commendable judgement in France, on
January 5th, of Sirma Oran-Martz for `bringing a frivolous civil
lawsuit’ against Jean-Paul Bret. Sirma Oran accused the Mayor of
Villeurbanne of racial discrimination following the Mayor’s request
to Sirma Oran to clarify her position concerning the Armenian Genocide
while Sirma Oran was candidate in the 2008 local elections. Facing the
determination of the outgoing Mayor, Sirma Oran refused to give an
opinion, adopting an attitude in line with her opposition to the
Genocide Memorial in Lyon, which was expressed by her participation in
the Turkish demonstration against this Memorial.
The Federation notes the Turkish State’s progressive
sophistication of arguments in its rhetoric of denial. `The
political community has the duty to be concerned about the
proliferation of these denialist ideas in European countries, be they
from Turkish natives or not, be they explicitly displayed or under the
pretext of the right to freedom of thought and expression, or even the
right to indifference,’ declared Hilda Tchoboian, the President of
the European Armenian Federation. `We condemn the perversity of
these new sophisticated forms of genocide denial, which consist of
denying, glorifying, minimizing and relativizing the seriousness of
the most abominable crimes against Humanity,’ affirmed Hilda
Tchoboian.
The Federation is concerned about the total impunity under which
these deniers are acting. It emphasizes that the EU Framework-Decision
against Racism and Xenophobia should be integrated into the national
legislations before the end of 2010 and thus, calls on the governments
of the European Union to take into consideration the increase in cases
of denial of the Armenian genocide in their implementation of this
Framework-Decision into their legislation. `Only by implementing
into the Member States’ legislation will we be able to contain this
plague on a European scale,’ affirmed Hilda Tchoboian.
The European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy gives its
total support to all the political and civic forces in Europe which
act against the proliferation of cases of the denial of the Armenian
Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Tutsi genocide.

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The European Armenian Federation is the biggest and most influential
Armenian grassroots organisation in Europe

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