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SECORD ACKNOWLEDGES ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATION IN PARLIAMENT
ARMENPRESS
2 May, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 2, ARMENPRESS: Member of the NSW Legislative Council,
the Honourable Walt Secord acknowledged the importance of the Armenian
Genocide Commemorative Week events in Australia held during the month
of April in an adjournment speech on the floor of the NSW Parliament
this week, reports Armenpress citing The Armenian National Committee
of Australia.
He said: " On 24 April I had the honour and privilege of representing
State Labor at a national commemoration marking the 97th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide. On 24 April 1915 Ottoman authorities arrested
250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. We see this as the
start of the Armenian Genocide.
"I was there at the National Armenian Genocide Commemoration in
three capacities: first, as the deputy co-chair of the New South
Wales Parliamentary Friends of Armenia; secondly, as the son of a
Mohawk-Ojibway man who belongs to a race that has been touched by
genocide in North America; and, thirdly, as the first Australian
parliamentarian to publicly visit Nagorno-Karabakh in support of the
contemporary struggles of the Armenian people."
Secord concluded: "I sincerely hope that one day, as Abraham Lincoln
once said, 'better angels of our nature' eventually prevail in Ankara
and Turkey accepts responsibility for the Armenian Genocide."
Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) Executive
Director Varant Meguerditchian applauded the NSW MP's courage in
bringing these issues to light.
"While Turkey maintains a policy of denial, the issue of the Armenian
Genocide remains unresolved," he said.
" We thank Mr Secord for acknowledging that Armenian Genocide
Commemorative Week renews our commitment and focus toward achieving
a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide."
ARMENPRESS
2 May, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, MAY 2, ARMENPRESS: Member of the NSW Legislative Council,
the Honourable Walt Secord acknowledged the importance of the Armenian
Genocide Commemorative Week events in Australia held during the month
of April in an adjournment speech on the floor of the NSW Parliament
this week, reports Armenpress citing The Armenian National Committee
of Australia.
He said: " On 24 April I had the honour and privilege of representing
State Labor at a national commemoration marking the 97th anniversary of
the Armenian Genocide. On 24 April 1915 Ottoman authorities arrested
250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders. We see this as the
start of the Armenian Genocide.
"I was there at the National Armenian Genocide Commemoration in
three capacities: first, as the deputy co-chair of the New South
Wales Parliamentary Friends of Armenia; secondly, as the son of a
Mohawk-Ojibway man who belongs to a race that has been touched by
genocide in North America; and, thirdly, as the first Australian
parliamentarian to publicly visit Nagorno-Karabakh in support of the
contemporary struggles of the Armenian people."
Secord concluded: "I sincerely hope that one day, as Abraham Lincoln
once said, 'better angels of our nature' eventually prevail in Ankara
and Turkey accepts responsibility for the Armenian Genocide."
Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC Australia) Executive
Director Varant Meguerditchian applauded the NSW MP's courage in
bringing these issues to light.
"While Turkey maintains a policy of denial, the issue of the Armenian
Genocide remains unresolved," he said.
" We thank Mr Secord for acknowledging that Armenian Genocide
Commemorative Week renews our commitment and focus toward achieving
a just resolution of the Armenian Genocide."