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THE FOREIGN MINISTRY ADMITS THAT TURKEY DISRUPTED THE GENOCIDE RECOGNITION PROCESS
May 30 2013
During the discussion on the 2012 annual progress report of the Foreign
Ministry, Nikol Pashinyan asked Shavarsh Kocharyan, a Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs, a question. Firstly, he complained that the report
had taken a rose-colored view of the situation. "The document is about
what incredible and unprecedented success the ministry achieved in
the year under review. When the Armenia-Turkey protocols were signed,
the government was accused of disrupting the Genocide recognition
process. Have any country recognized the Genocide in the past 10
years? Football diplomacy started in 2007; in 2010, Sweden recognized;
we haven't had recognition in 2011, 2012. "Isn't it high time that
the Foreign Ministry admits that football diplomacy has disrupted the
Genocide recognition process?" Nikol Pashinyan requested to answer
his questions, using plain language, not diplomatic language. Shavarsh
Kocharyan replied: "The Armenia-Turkey protocols - let us not relate
them to each other because they were really being slowed down at
that time. There is news in the Turkish press as if there are secret
negotiations. There are no negotiations; spread of that kind of news is
just in Turkey's interests. Now everything is in our hands, and Turkey
is really under pressure from that perspective; we should try to put
forward evidence that this whole process of the Genocide recognition
has been disrupted by Turkey itself." Nikol Pashinyan also asked:
"The so-called Khojaly massacre has been recognized by a few states
of the US, don't you think that the Armenian Foreign Ministry deals
a blow to the national security of the Republic of Armenia when it
puts forward such rose-colored reports."
According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, "They spend huge money on the Khajaly
issue, try to ram it through. They have succeeded in some places." He
assured that the Armenian Foreign Ministry was actively working;
for example, they had published a booklet about the real events in
different languages and spread it. According to Nikol Pashinyan,
it was asserted that Turkey had tried to convince the international
community, had seen a way to disrupt the Genocide recognition process;
i.e., the Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed that Turkey had gained
from the Armenia-Turkey protocols what it had wanted, convincing for
5 years. Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/30/154587/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
May 30 2013
During the discussion on the 2012 annual progress report of the Foreign
Ministry, Nikol Pashinyan asked Shavarsh Kocharyan, a Deputy Minister
of Foreign Affairs, a question. Firstly, he complained that the report
had taken a rose-colored view of the situation. "The document is about
what incredible and unprecedented success the ministry achieved in
the year under review. When the Armenia-Turkey protocols were signed,
the government was accused of disrupting the Genocide recognition
process. Have any country recognized the Genocide in the past 10
years? Football diplomacy started in 2007; in 2010, Sweden recognized;
we haven't had recognition in 2011, 2012. "Isn't it high time that
the Foreign Ministry admits that football diplomacy has disrupted the
Genocide recognition process?" Nikol Pashinyan requested to answer
his questions, using plain language, not diplomatic language. Shavarsh
Kocharyan replied: "The Armenia-Turkey protocols - let us not relate
them to each other because they were really being slowed down at
that time. There is news in the Turkish press as if there are secret
negotiations. There are no negotiations; spread of that kind of news is
just in Turkey's interests. Now everything is in our hands, and Turkey
is really under pressure from that perspective; we should try to put
forward evidence that this whole process of the Genocide recognition
has been disrupted by Turkey itself." Nikol Pashinyan also asked:
"The so-called Khojaly massacre has been recognized by a few states
of the US, don't you think that the Armenian Foreign Ministry deals
a blow to the national security of the Republic of Armenia when it
puts forward such rose-colored reports."
According to Shavarsh Kocharyan, "They spend huge money on the Khajaly
issue, try to ram it through. They have succeeded in some places." He
assured that the Armenian Foreign Ministry was actively working;
for example, they had published a booklet about the real events in
different languages and spread it. According to Nikol Pashinyan,
it was asserted that Turkey had tried to convince the international
community, had seen a way to disrupt the Genocide recognition process;
i.e., the Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed that Turkey had gained
from the Armenia-Turkey protocols what it had wanted, convincing for
5 years. Hripsime JEBEJYAN
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/05/30/154587/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia