ARMENIAN GENOCIDE REMAINING PRIORITY OF NATIONAL FOREIGN POLICY
On June 23 during his meeting with the representatives of the Armenian community of Moscow president of Armenia Serge Sarkisian said, "The Turkish side suggests to establish a commission which would study the historical facts. We are not against it, but only the condition of opening the Armenia-Turkey border. I plan of taking certain actions aiming at enhancing the relations between Armenia and Turkey. Most probably I shall invite president of Turkey Abdullah Gul to Yerevan in order to watch the football game between Armenia and Turkey."
President Sarkisian repeated the same words during the meeting with Russian experts on June 24. These statements roused both deliberations and objections inside Armenia. Levon Ter-Petrosian's supporters started various insinuations on the matter and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaksutiun) and the Democrat Party of Armenia headed other forces to opposing the President's position.
The insinuations of Ter-Petrosian supporters were absolutely expected and predictable, therefore we see no need to comment them. Regarding the opposition, we would like to mention that it was raised by anxiety of putting under doubt the internationally accepted fact of the Armenian Genocide by starting a joint research with Turkey. In the meanwhile spokesman of the President, Samuel Farmanian stated, "We are not against any studies, even of widely accepted and obvious facts. Researching a fact does not mean doubting it."
Foreign Minister of Armenia in addition to this stated that no commission can hamper the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide. Shortly, the Armenian Genocide remains among the priorities of the national foreign policy of Armenia.
The debatable statements of Serge Sarkisian can by no means imply Armenia's readiness for concessions to Turkey. The international process of recognition of the Armenian Genocide is developing, the European countries are coming to a common point of view on that matter; the question of adopting the Armenian Genocide is considered both by the US Congress and the Israeli Knesset.
By all means, any concession by Armenia in this matter will not be accepted either by Europe or the USA, or even by Israel, saying nothing of the countries that have already recognized the Genocide. The international public does not expect Armenia to concede to Turkey, but to start open research of dubitable historic episodes, as figured out in OSCE statement or President Bush's April 24 speech.
Serge Sarkisian's statements in Moscow were meant to meet the earlier suggestions of the Turkish side and to relieve USA's and Europe's pressure upon Armenia in connection with establishing normal relations with Turkey. Gul's visit to Yerevan will not mean immediate opening of the borders. And with the borders still close, the commission won't be established.
- By H. Chaqrian, translated by A.M.
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- 1864 Birth of satirist Harootyoon Alpiar. He died in 1919.
- 1923 Creation of the Bureau of History of the Communist Party of Armenia as an adjunct to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia.
- 1924 Under the initiative of the Norwegian scholar Friedthof Nansen, the League of Nations decides to grant Nansen Passports to the Armenians who had survived the Armenian Genocide.
- 1933 Death of the writer Nar-Dos (Meekael Hovhannissyan) in Tbilissi (Georgia). He was born in 1867.
- 1934 First issue of the "Communist" newspaper (property of the Central Committee of Armenia's Communist Party, Yerevan's City Committee, and the Central Executive Committee of the Armenian SSR).
- 1938 Opening of the first session of the Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet's first convention.
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