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PLANS FOR 100TH ANNIVERSARY APPEAL: LEADER OF COMMISSION SAYS UNITY NEEDED IN QUEST FOR GENOCIDE RECOGNITION
http://armenianow.com/genocide/45539/armenian_genocide_hayk_demoyan_ottoman_empire
GENOCIDE | 22.04.13 | 16:15
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By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN ArmeniaNow reporter
Secretary of the State Commission on Coordination of the events
dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide believes
the most important issue of 2015 will be to form a united, pan-Armenian
agenda on genocide recognition, followed by definite actions.
Wednesday, April 24, will mark the 98th anniversary of the massacre
committed against the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during
the years of WWI, which led to the death of 1.5 million.
Commission Secretary Hayk Demoyan, in charge of the Armenian Genocide
Museum-Institute said during a discussion held in Yerevan on Monday
that radically different and often mutually-exclusive viewpoints
on the Genocide recognition issue hinder greatly the work of the
commission created by presidential decree on April 23, 2011.
The state commission is led by President Serzh Sargsyan and has
representatives of Armenia's and Diaspora's political, religious,
scientific, and lobbying structures. So far the commission has held
two sessions only, and will call another one on May 30.
Demoyan reports that the main task of the commission is the submission
to international instances of a united, consensual legal package as
a legal claim against Turkey.
"However, before that, it is very important for the commission
to be able to solve one fundamental issue - harmonize our ideas,
approaches, after which we would formulate a single pan-Armenian
claim. We have completely different opinions on where and how to
submit, and most importantly what to demand," he says, adding that
the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide should not be viewed
as the end of the struggle, but as a launching point for new ways,
new methods.
Expert in Turkish studies Artak Shakaryan believes that the creation
of the commission was belated. He says it should have been done around
the 90th anniversary.
"The commission has held only two sessions since 2011, the third will
be held in May, during which decisions on principles and approaches
are yet to be made. We have only one year left to prepare for the100th
anniversary, but we are just now deciding what to do, just now drafting
suggestions. To my mind, the process is very slow," Shakaryan said.
From: Baghdasarian
http://armenianow.com/genocide/45539/armenian_genocide_hayk_demoyan_ottoman_empire
GENOCIDE | 22.04.13 | 16:15
Photolure
By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN ArmeniaNow reporter
Secretary of the State Commission on Coordination of the events
dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide believes
the most important issue of 2015 will be to form a united, pan-Armenian
agenda on genocide recognition, followed by definite actions.
Wednesday, April 24, will mark the 98th anniversary of the massacre
committed against the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire during
the years of WWI, which led to the death of 1.5 million.
Commission Secretary Hayk Demoyan, in charge of the Armenian Genocide
Museum-Institute said during a discussion held in Yerevan on Monday
that radically different and often mutually-exclusive viewpoints
on the Genocide recognition issue hinder greatly the work of the
commission created by presidential decree on April 23, 2011.
The state commission is led by President Serzh Sargsyan and has
representatives of Armenia's and Diaspora's political, religious,
scientific, and lobbying structures. So far the commission has held
two sessions only, and will call another one on May 30.
Demoyan reports that the main task of the commission is the submission
to international instances of a united, consensual legal package as
a legal claim against Turkey.
"However, before that, it is very important for the commission
to be able to solve one fundamental issue - harmonize our ideas,
approaches, after which we would formulate a single pan-Armenian
claim. We have completely different opinions on where and how to
submit, and most importantly what to demand," he says, adding that
the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide should not be viewed
as the end of the struggle, but as a launching point for new ways,
new methods.
Expert in Turkish studies Artak Shakaryan believes that the creation
of the commission was belated. He says it should have been done around
the 90th anniversary.
"The commission has held only two sessions since 2011, the third will
be held in May, during which decisions on principles and approaches
are yet to be made. We have only one year left to prepare for the100th
anniversary, but we are just now deciding what to do, just now drafting
suggestions. To my mind, the process is very slow," Shakaryan said.
From: Baghdasarian