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ARMENIA LEADER: WE DO NOT INCITE HOSTILITY AND HATRED AMONG OUR PEOPLE
18:56, 18.03.2015
YEREVAN. - The Republic of Armenia will also continue its fight
against the crime of genocide within the framework of international
organizations,President Serzh Sargsyan said during "At the Foot of
Mount Ararat" media forum in Yerevan.
"In 2013, at its 22th session, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously
adopted the resolution on the prevention of genocide initiated by
Armenia. This year we are going to table another draft resolution,"
he said, addressing the participants.
"It is inspiring that the representatives of the international
community are also engaged in Armenian-led initiatives. Moreover,
its members continue to bring their weighty contribution towards the
recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.
We are forever grateful to all those states and peoples who both in
times of the calamity and during the subsequent years, have granted
asylum to thousands of Armenians, giving them an opportunity to
survive and preserve their identity and become full-fledged members
of society in the given countries.
While attaching importance to the recognition and condemnation of
genocides as a means of preventing their recurrence, we also extend
our gratitude to all those states and organizations who continue
to reflect upon the crime committed against our nation. This bears
witness to the civilized world's sincere commitment to the protection
of universal values, which inspires nations subjected to genocide
to believe in the restoration of justice and violated rights, just
condemnation of the crimes and inadmissibility of impunity.
The resolution titled "The Armenian Genocide and European Values"
adopted recently by the EPP Political Assembly on March 3, 2015
was a striking example of such a commitment. It contained serious
political messages on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
its condemnation and denial, and called upon Turkey to confront its
past. Such a position on the Armenian Genocide adopted by Europe's
largest and most influential political force should indeed play a
guiding role for European institutions and EU member states.
It is clear that in today's world the guarantee of stability and
normal development is peaceful co-existence and tolerance. This is
the very principle guiding us through the Nagorno-Karabakh peace
process, thereby not allowing Azerbaijan to ruin peace negotiations
with its bellicose statements and provocative actions. In contrast
to Azerbaijani authorities, whose provocative actions endanger the
stability of not only their state but also of the region, Armenia is
fully aware of the grave consequences of such adventurism. Therefore,
by containing Azerbaijan's military provocations, we try to avoid
a new spark of the conflict, which will seriously deteriorate the
already unstable situation in our entire region.
We do not incite hostility and hatred among our people, which has
been an inseparable component of the policy carried out by the
Azerbaijani authorities for years. In contrast to the Azerbaijani
President who declared that the Armenian people are the number one
enemies of Azerbaijanis, I would like to highlight once again that
the Armenians do not have enemy nations.
It was Azerbaijan's decades-long anti-Armenian policy and the
determination to restore historical justice that ultimately drove
the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to exercise their inviolable right to
self-determination - to build their own homeland on their own land.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's threats and provocations, the wheel of
history is impossible to roll back: the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is
already a well-established reality and it is not feasible to break
the freedom-loving spirit of its people. To ascertain it, I am calling
upon you to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to get acquainted with the Artsakh
state-building on the ground and represent the objective reality to
your public.
The Armenian position on the settlement of the conflict remains
the same: it must be settled within the framework of the OSCE Minsk
Group, through peaceful negotiations on the basis of the three famous
principles of the Helsinki Final Act put forth by the Co-Chairs.
Azerbaijan's efforts to alter the format provided by the Minsk
Group, talk to the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from
a position of force, provocations and blackmail will not yield a
lasting solution. This is an unequivocal truth.
On January 27, 2015 the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group issued a
statement in Krakow on Azerbaijan's destructive policy, in which they
called upon Azerbaijan to live up to its commitments to the peaceful
resolution of the conflict. I strongly believe that continued sending
of targeted messages calling to exercise restraint will incite certain
degree of vigilance with their true addressee."
Armenia News - NEWS.am
18:56, 18.03.2015
YEREVAN. - The Republic of Armenia will also continue its fight
against the crime of genocide within the framework of international
organizations,President Serzh Sargsyan said during "At the Foot of
Mount Ararat" media forum in Yerevan.
"In 2013, at its 22th session, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously
adopted the resolution on the prevention of genocide initiated by
Armenia. This year we are going to table another draft resolution,"
he said, addressing the participants.
"It is inspiring that the representatives of the international
community are also engaged in Armenian-led initiatives. Moreover,
its members continue to bring their weighty contribution towards the
recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide.
We are forever grateful to all those states and peoples who both in
times of the calamity and during the subsequent years, have granted
asylum to thousands of Armenians, giving them an opportunity to
survive and preserve their identity and become full-fledged members
of society in the given countries.
While attaching importance to the recognition and condemnation of
genocides as a means of preventing their recurrence, we also extend
our gratitude to all those states and organizations who continue
to reflect upon the crime committed against our nation. This bears
witness to the civilized world's sincere commitment to the protection
of universal values, which inspires nations subjected to genocide
to believe in the restoration of justice and violated rights, just
condemnation of the crimes and inadmissibility of impunity.
The resolution titled "The Armenian Genocide and European Values"
adopted recently by the EPP Political Assembly on March 3, 2015
was a striking example of such a commitment. It contained serious
political messages on the recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
its condemnation and denial, and called upon Turkey to confront its
past. Such a position on the Armenian Genocide adopted by Europe's
largest and most influential political force should indeed play a
guiding role for European institutions and EU member states.
It is clear that in today's world the guarantee of stability and
normal development is peaceful co-existence and tolerance. This is
the very principle guiding us through the Nagorno-Karabakh peace
process, thereby not allowing Azerbaijan to ruin peace negotiations
with its bellicose statements and provocative actions. In contrast
to Azerbaijani authorities, whose provocative actions endanger the
stability of not only their state but also of the region, Armenia is
fully aware of the grave consequences of such adventurism. Therefore,
by containing Azerbaijan's military provocations, we try to avoid
a new spark of the conflict, which will seriously deteriorate the
already unstable situation in our entire region.
We do not incite hostility and hatred among our people, which has
been an inseparable component of the policy carried out by the
Azerbaijani authorities for years. In contrast to the Azerbaijani
President who declared that the Armenian people are the number one
enemies of Azerbaijanis, I would like to highlight once again that
the Armenians do not have enemy nations.
It was Azerbaijan's decades-long anti-Armenian policy and the
determination to restore historical justice that ultimately drove
the people of Nagorno-Karabakh to exercise their inviolable right to
self-determination - to build their own homeland on their own land.
Regardless of Azerbaijan's threats and provocations, the wheel of
history is impossible to roll back: the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic is
already a well-established reality and it is not feasible to break
the freedom-loving spirit of its people. To ascertain it, I am calling
upon you to visit Nagorno-Karabakh to get acquainted with the Artsakh
state-building on the ground and represent the objective reality to
your public.
The Armenian position on the settlement of the conflict remains
the same: it must be settled within the framework of the OSCE Minsk
Group, through peaceful negotiations on the basis of the three famous
principles of the Helsinki Final Act put forth by the Co-Chairs.
Azerbaijan's efforts to alter the format provided by the Minsk
Group, talk to the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh from
a position of force, provocations and blackmail will not yield a
lasting solution. This is an unequivocal truth.
On January 27, 2015 the Co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group issued a
statement in Krakow on Azerbaijan's destructive policy, in which they
called upon Azerbaijan to live up to its commitments to the peaceful
resolution of the conflict. I strongly believe that continued sending
of targeted messages calling to exercise restraint will incite certain
degree of vigilance with their true addressee."
Armenia News - NEWS.am