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GERMANY MAY NOT SEND A DELEGATION TO YEREVAN ON APRIL 24
March 6, 2015 14:53
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Yerevan/Mediamax/. Germany may not send a delegation to Yerevan on
the Armenian Genocide Centennial on April 24.
German Deutsche Welle reports this referring to its sources. The
German Foreign Ministry reported that they didn't yet clarify who
would represent Berlin in the events due in Yerevan.
"It is possible that only the German ambassador will attend the
service, whereas France will be represented by the president himself,
Francois Hollande. Historian Jurgen Gottschlich has called this
"scandalous"", Deutsche Welle reports.
Deutsche Welle has also noted that the German parliament plans to
remember the victims of the Armenian genocide with a debate.
The publication quotes German historians as saying that German
authorities had clear information on extermination and eviction of
Armenians over 1915-1916.
In particular, historian Christin Pschichholz from the University
of Potsam who had studied the German Foreign Ministry's archives
concluded that "the German diplomats painstakingly took note of
everything happening around them at that time".
Specifically, a dispatch sent on July 7, 1915 by the German Ambassador
in Constantinople to the Imperial Chancellor reads "it is the declared
intention of the government [meaning the Turkish government] to
destroy the Armenian race in the Turkish Empire."
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/13418#sthash.7MUroanE.dpuf
March 6, 2015 14:53
Photo: http://www.dw.de
Yerevan/Mediamax/. Germany may not send a delegation to Yerevan on
the Armenian Genocide Centennial on April 24.
German Deutsche Welle reports this referring to its sources. The
German Foreign Ministry reported that they didn't yet clarify who
would represent Berlin in the events due in Yerevan.
"It is possible that only the German ambassador will attend the
service, whereas France will be represented by the president himself,
Francois Hollande. Historian Jurgen Gottschlich has called this
"scandalous"", Deutsche Welle reports.
Deutsche Welle has also noted that the German parliament plans to
remember the victims of the Armenian genocide with a debate.
The publication quotes German historians as saying that German
authorities had clear information on extermination and eviction of
Armenians over 1915-1916.
In particular, historian Christin Pschichholz from the University
of Potsam who had studied the German Foreign Ministry's archives
concluded that "the German diplomats painstakingly took note of
everything happening around them at that time".
Specifically, a dispatch sent on July 7, 1915 by the German Ambassador
in Constantinople to the Imperial Chancellor reads "it is the declared
intention of the government [meaning the Turkish government] to
destroy the Armenian race in the Turkish Empire."
http://www.mediamax.am/en/news/foreignpolicy/13418#sthash.7MUroanE.dpuf