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    FORMER AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA HARRY GILMORE RECOGNIZES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    YEREVAN, MARCH 11. ARMINFO. Harry Gilmore, the first American
    Ambassador to Armenia, is the latest U.S. official to publicly
    acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and call for international
    recognition of this crime against humanity. In an interview with Radio
    Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) this week, the retired diplomat
    said, "There is no doubt that the Armenian events were genocide." AAA
    reports that Gilmore told RFE/RL that the crimes against the Armenians
    fit the definition of genocide as determined by the U.N. Convention
    on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

    One should not forget that the Convention was adopted long after
    these events, Gilmore says, but from the legal point of view the
    international Convention has no return force. "The key point is that
    the convention sets up a standard and the massacres and deportations
    of the Ottoman Armenians meet that standard fully," Gilmore stated.

    I can hear the voices of the souls of those who fell victims in Ter
    Dzor desert, the diplomat says. Someone must recognize what had
    happened to them and to call the things with their proper names,
    he says.
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