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Published on July 17, 2008
EAFJD: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION IS TURKEY’S MORAL, LEGAL AND POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Recently elected Armenian President Serge Sargyan made overtures to his counterpart in the Turkish Government this week, inviting President Abdullah Gul to join him in Armenia’s capital Yerevan to watch the upcoming soccer match between Turkey and Armenia on September 6th, says the European Armenian Federation for Justice and Democracy (EAFJD). Sargsyan also renewed the offer, made by previous Armenian presidents, to establish normal diplomatic relations with the Turkish Government, with no preconditions. The announcements were made in a peace of opinion published in The Wall Street Journal earlier this week, which also called for the creation of an inter-governmental “commission to comprehensively discuss all of the complex issues affecting Armenia and Turkey”. To date, Turkey has not responded to Sargsyan’s proposal. Turkey is continuing its devastating 15-year blockade of Armenia, imposed due to racial hostility stemming from the Armenian Genocide of 1915-1923. Turkey continues to make false accusations as to the reasoning for the blockade – blaming everything from the Karabakh conflict to articles in the Armenian Constitution. The European Armenian Federation noted that Armenia’s call for the unconditional removal of Turkey’s blockade is a matter of international law and would be beneficial to both countries as well as the region and international community overall. As such, the Federation calls upon the European Union to increase its pressure on Turkey, which, as a candidate for European Union accession, is duty-bound to peacefully resolve all disputes with neighboring countries in compliance with International law, as mandated in the Framework of Negotiations. “The scholarly community has long since spoken on this issue. The International Association of Genocide Scholars has gone so far as to send an open letter to the Turkish Prime Minister to express the pointlessness of such a commission. Turkey itself scuttled a similar committee because that group properly characterized the Armenian Genocide” said Hilda Tchoboian, the president of the European Armenian Federation. The Federation regrets that Turkey continues its behind-the-scenes efforts to tie the establishment of normalized relations with Armenia with international genocide recognition and reparations – a genocide of which Turkey is guilty. “The recognition of genocide and the reparations that follow is a moral, legal and political responsibility that no State can escape,” continued Tchoboian. “At this point, the only question that remains is when Turkey will face that fact, stop living in the past, and rejoin the international community by recognizing the Armenian Genocide,” she concluded.
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France’s initial four priorities for the six-month Presidency - energy and climate change, immigration, defense, and a review of the EU’s farm policy. A major "energy-climate package" will be presented ...BABACAN: TURKEY IS A ‘DOOR OF LIFE’ FOR ARMENIA
Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said that Turkey has taken unilateral steps to normalize bilateral ties with neighboring Armenia and the recent offer by Yerevan to the Turkish president to watch a football ...FRANCE WELCOMES RESUMPTION OF KARABAKH TALKS
The OSCE Minsk Group Co-chairs demonstrated a constructive approach in a search for compromise that could serve as a basis for the Nagorno Karabakh conflict resolution, France’s Ambassador to Armenia ...EAFJD: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION IS TURKEY’S MORAL, LEGAL AND POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY
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France gave green light to continuation of the EU-Turkey talks but we rule out that these talks will result in membership, France’s Ambassador to Armenia Serge Smessov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. ...FRANCE HAS NOT MADE FINAL DECISION ON EASTERN PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE YET
France has not made a final decision on the Eastern Partnership initiative yet, France’s Ambassador to Armenia Serge Smessov said in an interview with PanARMENIAN.Net. “The Action Plan opens wide possibilities ...LIST OF PROGRAMS MEANT TO ASSIST ARMENIA IN ACTION PLAN IMPLEMENTATION NOT CONFIRMED YET
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