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    MARIOS GAROYIAN CALLED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    24.11.2009 20:36 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ The President of the Greek Cypriot House of
    Representatives called for the international recognition of the
    Armenian Genocide on Sunday, the Financial Mirror reported.

    "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," said Marios Garoyian, speaking after
    Sunday mass at the Armenian Church of Nicosia.

    "We ask for justice," he added. "We demand the restoration of the
    historic truth, not its falsification." The Parliament of Cyprus was
    the first in the EU to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide,
    in 1982.

    Garoyian pointed to recent attempt by Turkey to normalize relations
    with Armenia as another attempt by Turkey to deny justice to the
    Armenian people. He described agreements signed by Yerevan and Ankara
    as an "attempt of the Turkish government" to falsify history though
    so-called peace with Armenia.

    The Cypriot leader drew a connection with the struggle for the
    Armenian people's struggle for justice and the efforts by Cyprus to
    overcome nearly 3 decades of Turkish occupation of the northern half
    of the island.

    Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and
    occupied the north, installing a government controlled by Ankara.

    "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," Garoyian said.

    "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 bring 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 stressed.

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