VACLAV HAVEL URGED TO CONSIDER THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT FROM THE POLITICAL BUT FROM THE HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW
Mediamax
Dec 19 2011
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Former President of Czech Republic Vaclav Havel,
who passed away on December 18, urged to consider the problem of the
Armenian Genocide from the historical point of view.
Vaclav Havel died aged 76 after a long illness on December 18.
In December 2005, then Czech President Vaclav Havel said that the
"problem of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire should be
considered not from the political but from the historical point
of view."
In his written answer to the question of Armenian "Orer" Magazine
published in Prague, Vaclav Havel expressed the opinion that all
interested parties should be ready for a historical assessment of
events by experts. "Although the process of acknowledgement and
assessment of its own past is often too painful, it is necessary in
order to preserve the moral unity of the nation," Vaclav Havel used
to say.
Mediamax
Dec 19 2011
Armenia
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Former President of Czech Republic Vaclav Havel,
who passed away on December 18, urged to consider the problem of the
Armenian Genocide from the historical point of view.
Vaclav Havel died aged 76 after a long illness on December 18.
In December 2005, then Czech President Vaclav Havel said that the
"problem of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire should be
considered not from the political but from the historical point
of view."
In his written answer to the question of Armenian "Orer" Magazine
published in Prague, Vaclav Havel expressed the opinion that all
interested parties should be ready for a historical assessment of
events by experts. "Although the process of acknowledgement and
assessment of its own past is often too painful, it is necessary in
order to preserve the moral unity of the nation," Vaclav Havel used
to say.