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IF TURKEY DOES NOT ADMIT COMMITTING GENOCIDE, THIS MEANS IT IS READY TO COMMIT IT AGAIN, LARISA ALAVERDIAN SAYS
Noyan Tapan
Oct 20, 2009
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Larisa Alaverdian, Secretary of
the parliamentary "Heritage" faction, non-party woman is in favor of
Turkey's lifting blockade imposed on Armenia, but she is categorically
against the ratification of the Armenia-Turkey protocols signed in
Zurich. She stated this during a meeting with reporters on October 20.
She said that despite the claims of the authorities, the protocols
contain no statement about the establishment of relations without
any preconditions. Quite the opposite, in these documents, the
establishment of diplomatic relations is linked with the recognition of
the existing border between the two countries, which has no precedence
in international practice.
In the opinion of L. Alaverdian, if Turkey does not admit that its
former political system used genocide as a policy, it means that
"it is ready to commit it again".
As regards the ongoing unification of more than a dozen parties
against the protocols, L. Alaverdian reminded that from the very
first Heritage Party demanded the RA president's resignation, whereas
the ARF did not make such demands. In her words, the political forces
comprising the Armenian National Congress (ANC) make demands for power
shift and have united mostly around the internal political problems,
particularly social ones. She found it difficult to forecast whether
these two "driving forces" united around different problems will join
together one day.
Noyan Tapan
Oct 20, 2009
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 20, NOYAN TAPAN. Larisa Alaverdian, Secretary of
the parliamentary "Heritage" faction, non-party woman is in favor of
Turkey's lifting blockade imposed on Armenia, but she is categorically
against the ratification of the Armenia-Turkey protocols signed in
Zurich. She stated this during a meeting with reporters on October 20.
She said that despite the claims of the authorities, the protocols
contain no statement about the establishment of relations without
any preconditions. Quite the opposite, in these documents, the
establishment of diplomatic relations is linked with the recognition of
the existing border between the two countries, which has no precedence
in international practice.
In the opinion of L. Alaverdian, if Turkey does not admit that its
former political system used genocide as a policy, it means that
"it is ready to commit it again".
As regards the ongoing unification of more than a dozen parties
against the protocols, L. Alaverdian reminded that from the very
first Heritage Party demanded the RA president's resignation, whereas
the ARF did not make such demands. In her words, the political forces
comprising the Armenian National Congress (ANC) make demands for power
shift and have united mostly around the internal political problems,
particularly social ones. She found it difficult to forecast whether
these two "driving forces" united around different problems will join
together one day.