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    DIARIO ARMENIA: SECOND PROTOCOL DISGRACEFULLY ABSURD

    news.am
    Nov 2 2009
    Armenia

    It is difficult to understand some individuals that decided to
    consign to oblivion the Armenia people's greatest tragedy, the
    analyst Juan Gabriel Tokatlian says in an article published by Diario
    Armenia. What is going on is not a usual thing, and the Armenian
    Government's position on the Genocide committed by Turks from 1915
    to 1923 deserves a special analysis.

    In this context he singles out negatives and positive premises. Among
    the negative ones are the intellectual decline of the ancient people,
    opportunistic policy and a potential new traumatic experience. Among
    positive premises is the normal wish to get over the tragedy and
    reach a true reconciliation of the nations. All the aforementioned
    arguments are conducive to the historical facts passing into oblivion.

    This unusual situation teaches lessons. Two-year "tactful"
    negotiations through Swiss mediation were followed by the signing
    of two Armenian-Turkish protocols. The first of them, which deals
    with the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, can be
    improved and pit into practice. No doubt, the two nations have to
    improve their relations sooner or later. The second protocol, which
    provides for a scientific study of historical facts and archives by
    means of an intergovernmental commission, is unacceptable. The only
    historical aspect is the undeniable fact of the Armenian Genocide,
    which is common knowledge. It would be tantamount to calling the Jewish
    Holocaust into question. This is great regress for the Armenian Cause.

    This step does not heal the wounds. We can ask: do we have to prove the
    events foreign diplomats, doctors, clergymen, and observers have proved
    by having collected numerous facts, pictures, and documentaries? They
    are ubiquitous, but the West never properly responded.

    The Armenian Diaspora has always been supportive of the Armenian
    Government in this matter. The Armenian Genocide has always been of
    social, rather than state, nature for the Armenians It has always
    been obvious that defending the fact of the Armenian Genocide is
    immediately connected with Armenia's destiny. In this respect, the
    second Armenian-Turkish protocol is disgracefully absurd. Not only
    does Turkey refuse to admit the Armenian Genocide, but the Armenian
    Government is calling the fact into question by its actions, writes
    Gabriel Tokatlian.
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