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    ANCA CONCERNED WITH PROTOCOLS INITIATED FOR IMPROVING ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS

    Noyan Tapan
    Sep 3, 2009

    WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 3, NOYAN TAPAN. The Armenian National Committee
    of America (ANCA) gave the Members of Congress a letter dated by
    September 1 presenting its reservations and fears regarding the
    Protocols initiated for improving Armenian-Turkish relations.

    According to the Asbarez daily, it was stressed in the letter signed
    by ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian that Armenia being blockaded
    by Turkey now is under intense economic and diplomatic pressure, and
    that is why it has forcedly accepted such conditions which contains
    danger for its interests, rights, safety, and even future. He adds
    that the attempts of Turkey to submit the issue of Armenian Genocide
    for the discussion of the commission of historians raise more anxiety
    and they are the part of the long-term policy of Ankara of denying
    that historical fact.

    Hamparian stresses that such an attempt to establish normal relations
    between Turkey and Armenia can not last long as it is not based on
    the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide.

    It is also mentioned in the letter that the day after publishing the
    news about the Protocols on bilateral relations the Turkish authorities
    broke their word on establishing relations without pre-conditions when
    they assured the Azeri authorities that it is impossible to open the
    borders between Turkey and Armenia without settlement of the Nagorno
    Karabakh conflict.

    A. Hamparian calls in his letter to apply to these four main events:

    - To persuade the President of the United States to honor his pledge
    to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

    - To gain credits from Washington that it will not, in any way, accept
    the suggestion of submitting the issue of the Armenian Genocide to the
    "historical commission" as such a step will cast a doubt on the fact
    of the genocide.

    - The U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs must hold Turkey accountable
    for its failure to honor its commitments.

    - The U.S. Congress should move quickly to pass the Armenian Genocide
    Resolution.
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