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    NEVERTHELESS POPE MENTIONED THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
    By Hakob Chakrian

    AZG Armenian Daily
    07/12/2006

    The Pope is not the Person to be Blamed

    The visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Turkey ended on December 1, but
    its consequences and rumors are still insinuated both in Vatican and
    Turkey, as well as in the whole West. One of the hottest points of
    the High Pontiff's visit was his meeting with Patriarch Mesrop II
    Mutafian. Before the meeting NTVNSNBC announced that the Pope was to
    mention the past tragedies of the Armenian people, but not mention
    the word "genocide".

    When the meeting began CNN-Turk reported that the Armenian Patriarch
    of Constantinople welcomed the Pope with the following words: "The
    peace dialogue of the Armenian and Turkish peoples is a virtue and
    our expectation". An article by CNN, published on the "Haytert" (The
    Armenian Newspaper) website, corrected the information previously
    published by "Anadolu" agency: the Patriarch marked the peace
    dialogue between the Armenians and the Turks not a "virtue" but
    "vital necessity".

    As CNN-Turk and Anadolu did not report anything of the Pope's reply
    to the Armenian Patriarch Of Constantinople, "Azg" daily came to
    conclusion that the meeting was arranged to fail and published a
    corresponding article on December 2.

    The speech of the Pope was also neglected by the Turkish press and the
    central television. Such attitude of the press seems quite natural,
    and of the public television - amusing, as only the Turkish National
    TV Channel and the "Anadolu" agency were authorized to illustrate
    the Pope's visit to the Armenian Patriarchy of Constantinople.

    Official messenger of the patriarchy "Lraber" published the November
    30 speech of the pope with considerable delay. Lraber's publication
    was copied by Haytert, aslo controlled by the Patriarchy. Indeed,
    the statement by NTVNSNBC proved true - Benedict XVI mentioned the
    events of 1914-1916, but did not mark them as genocide. That is why
    the Patriarchy failed to respond to the Pope's speech.

    According to "Lraber", at the Constantinople Patriarchy Pope Benedict
    XVI welcomed the Armenian Apostolic community and aslo sent his
    "brotherly welcome" to Catholicos Karekin II and whole the Armenian
    Apostolic Church. He expressed his gratefulness to God that the
    Armenian have passed their Christian heritage throughout numerous
    generations in spite of harsh testimonies, of which an example are
    the tragic events of the past century.

    Protractions with the publication of the Pope's response also confused
    famous lawyer Mark Kirakosian, who published an article in ABC-News,
    blaming the Pope of missing the opportunity to express his position
    about the Genocide.

    "Die Welt" says that Benedict XVI was warned not to mentioned the
    Genocide by the "Armenian Bishop of Istanbul", taking into account the
    scandals in the Turkish society about the visit. It is also notable
    that Catholic believers, who are over 1 billion in the world consider
    the Pope unmistakable. Probably, that is why the Pope did not ask
    excuse of the Muslims in connection with the Prophet Mohammad cartoons.

    Therefore it seems obvious that blaming the "Unmistakable" Pope
    would only harm the process of worldwide recognition of the Armenian
    Genocide, provoking enmity of the Roman Catholic Church.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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