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    PETER BRINER: STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BASED ON FALSE CITATION OR MISUNDERSTANDING
    Oksana Musaelyan,

    ARMINFO, August 11, 2005

    The President of the Swiss Senate foreign-affairs committee Peter
    Briner denies his ever saying that Turkey's massacre of Armenians would
    not be debated in the chamber. In a talk with ARMINFO correspondent
    he says that the mentioned statement is based on a false citation or
    a misunderstanding respectively.

    To remind, at the beginning of August a number of Turkish media as
    well as Swissinfo reported Briner as saying: "Turkey's massacre of
    Armenians in 1915 will never be an issue for the Swiss Senate. Other
    countries had no business pointing the finger at Turkey 90 years
    after the disputed events, and the Senate foreign-affairs committee
    agreed with the government that it was not parliament's job to decide
    whether the killings constituted genocide."

    Briner deeply regrets that his words have been distorted. This was
    just a matter of procedure: what he did say was that at the time
    when the Swiss House of Representatives forwarded an intervention
    recognizing the genocide this had not been a issue in the Senate
    and so would require a change of rules of procedure on the Plenary
    Session agenda. However the statement was by no means about the future
    possibility of lobbying of the issue in the Swiss Senate. Briner says
    that the policy of the Swiss government and his committee is that the
    mentioned terrible events should be investigated by the two countries
    involved, i.e. Turkey and Armenia with a committee of historians of
    both sides.

    Meanwhile, the editor of California Courier Harut Sassounian has sent
    a letter to Journal of Turkish Weekly, one of the media distorting
    Briner's statement. Sassounyan says that every piece of JTW's news was
    "nothing but a pack of lies." "I will be happy to give you one free
    lesson in journalism: there is no such thing as Armenian or Turkish
    journalism. There is only one kind of universal journalism, which is
    reporting the truth," says Sassounian in his letter.

    In response JTW has accused Sassounian of "extremist Armenian
    approach." The media says that its editors will use all the legal
    rights regarding the insults and will start a legal action in
    California against the "offender".

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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