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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF SLOVAK REPUBLIC: NOBODY DOUBTS THAT AFTER
COMMITTING GENOCIDE TURKS ALSO ORGANIZED "GENOCIDE OF ARCHIVES"
BRATISLAVA, AUGUST 29, NOYAN TAPAN. There is no obstacle to approval of
the law envisaging criminal punishment in Slovakia for denial the
Armenian Genocide, the Slovak deputy prime minister, minister of
justice Stefan Harabin said during the August 28 meeting with the
Chairman of the Forum of Armenian Unions of Europe and the Armenian
community of Slovakia Ashot Grigorian. According to S. Harabin, he sees
no problem "in the issue of approval of the law on the Armenian
Genocide within the planned period, especially as the resolution
confirming and condemning the Armenian Genocide, which was adopted by
the National Council of the Slovak Republic in 2004, has the status of
an imperative necessity for the country's government." Not responding
to Turkish diplomats' complaint about the wreath laying ceremony at
Armenian Khachkar dedicated to the Genocide during the opening of a
congress of the Forum of Armenian Unions of Europe in Bratislava in
late May, S. Harabin gave the above mentioned explanation to the
foreign ministry of the Slovak Republic.
During the meeting, the interlocutors summarized the developments that
followed the Slovak deputy prime minister's visit to Armenia. As for
the appeal of the Turkish foreign minister Ali Babacan to Armenia to
open the archives of the two countries, S. Harabin said that every
person who visits the Genocide Museum in Yerevan becomes acquainted
with the Armenian archives, besides, "no one doubts that after
committing the genocide the Turks also organized a "genocide of
archives".
COMMITTING GENOCIDE TURKS ALSO ORGANIZED "GENOCIDE OF ARCHIVES"
BRATISLAVA, AUGUST 29, NOYAN TAPAN. There is no obstacle to approval of
the law envisaging criminal punishment in Slovakia for denial the
Armenian Genocide, the Slovak deputy prime minister, minister of
justice Stefan Harabin said during the August 28 meeting with the
Chairman of the Forum of Armenian Unions of Europe and the Armenian
community of Slovakia Ashot Grigorian. According to S. Harabin, he sees
no problem "in the issue of approval of the law on the Armenian
Genocide within the planned period, especially as the resolution
confirming and condemning the Armenian Genocide, which was adopted by
the National Council of the Slovak Republic in 2004, has the status of
an imperative necessity for the country's government." Not responding
to Turkish diplomats' complaint about the wreath laying ceremony at
Armenian Khachkar dedicated to the Genocide during the opening of a
congress of the Forum of Armenian Unions of Europe in Bratislava in
late May, S. Harabin gave the above mentioned explanation to the
foreign ministry of the Slovak Republic.
During the meeting, the interlocutors summarized the developments that
followed the Slovak deputy prime minister's visit to Armenia. As for
the appeal of the Turkish foreign minister Ali Babacan to Armenia to
open the archives of the two countries, S. Harabin said that every
person who visits the Genocide Museum in Yerevan becomes acquainted
with the Armenian archives, besides, "no one doubts that after
committing the genocide the Turks also organized a "genocide of
archives".