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    CYPRUS' GAROYIAN: HISTORIC TRUTH ABOUT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MUST BE RESTORED

    Financial Mirror
    http://www.financialmirror.com/News/Cyprus_ and_World_News/18345
    Nov 23 2009
    Cyprus

    President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian has
    underlined the need to restore the historic truth as regards the
    Armenian Genocide.

    "We ask for justice. We demand the restoration of the historic truth,
    not its falsification, which is the attempt of the Turkish government,
    which uses methods and so called initiatives for peace with Armenia",
    he stressed.

    Speaking after a mass at the Armenian Church in Nicosia, he said
    that "on days like this one, I believe we have the duty to remember
    the Armenian Genocide and reaffirm our steadfast faith towards the
    struggle for international recognition of that terrible crime which
    marked the fate and the course of the Armenian people".

    Garoyian pointed out that "justice and freedom is what we want for our
    common country, Cyprus, which for 35 years now suffers the consequences
    of the Turkish invasion and occupation".

    "We want a just, functional and viable solution, that would restore
    the unity of Cyprus' territory, its people, its institutions and that
    would safeguard human rights for all its people, Greek Cypriots and
    Turkish Cypriots, Maronites, Armenians and Latins and give an end
    to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, to Ankara's policy to illegally
    bring settlers to the island, to Turkish guarantees and intervention
    rights", he went on to say.

    Garoyian said that the solution in Cyprus must be based on
    international law, the UN values and decisions, human rights and the
    EU values and principles.

    Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and
    occupied its northern third.

    The Parliament of Cyprus was the first in the EU to adopt a resolution
    recognising the Armenian Genocide, in 1982.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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