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A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS: TER-PETROSYAN REITERATES CRITICISM OVER GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL DECLARATION
5 | 10:14
POLITICS | 23.03.15 | 10:14
Opposition Armenian National Congress leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
continues to criticize the adoption of the Pan-Armenian Declaration
on the occasion of the approaching Genocide Centennial.
In an article published in the Chorrord Ishkhanutyun newspaper late
last week Ter-Petrosyan, who led Armenia as president in 1991-1998, for
the third time in less than two months drew the Armenian government's
attention to "threats present in this document."
"I have no doubts that these threats will beget serious problems for
Armenia in the near future," he said in the piece entitled "A Voice
in the Wilderness".
In his previous article followed by an open letter to President Serzh
Sargsyan in February Ter-Petrosyan also warned that legal claims set
out as a policy in the recently adopted Pan-Armenian Declaration
on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will affect the
process of Armenian-Turkish normalization.
The 12-point Declaration promulgated by the State Commission on
Coordination of the events for the commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on January 29, in particular,
expresses "the united will of Armenia and the Armenian people to
achieve worldwide recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the
elimination of the consequences of the Genocide, preparing to this
end a file of legal claims as a point of departure in the process of
restoring individual, communal and pan-Armenian rights and legitimate
interests."
In his latest article Ter-Petrosyan again contended that the
Pan-Armenian Declaration does not aim to solve neither of the two
"vital" political problems facing Armenia - normalization with Turkey
and settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.
Furthermore, he wrote, it will only inevitably cause new obstacles
in the matter of overcoming these problems.
"This document written in the confrontational spirit will make Turkey
assume a tougher position towards Armenia both in the matter of
Armenian-Turkish normalization and in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict," Ter-Petrosyan claimed. "And this, at best, means preserving
the status quo with all the negative consequences for Armenia and
Karabakh, including economic decline, dwindling investments, political
isolation, growing emigration, etc.."
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/61630/armenia_terpetrosyan_turkey_relations
5 | 10:14
POLITICS | 23.03.15 | 10:14
Opposition Armenian National Congress leader Levon Ter-Petrosyan
continues to criticize the adoption of the Pan-Armenian Declaration
on the occasion of the approaching Genocide Centennial.
In an article published in the Chorrord Ishkhanutyun newspaper late
last week Ter-Petrosyan, who led Armenia as president in 1991-1998, for
the third time in less than two months drew the Armenian government's
attention to "threats present in this document."
"I have no doubts that these threats will beget serious problems for
Armenia in the near future," he said in the piece entitled "A Voice
in the Wilderness".
In his previous article followed by an open letter to President Serzh
Sargsyan in February Ter-Petrosyan also warned that legal claims set
out as a policy in the recently adopted Pan-Armenian Declaration
on the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide will affect the
process of Armenian-Turkish normalization.
The 12-point Declaration promulgated by the State Commission on
Coordination of the events for the commemoration of the 100th
anniversary of the Armenian Genocide on January 29, in particular,
expresses "the united will of Armenia and the Armenian people to
achieve worldwide recognition of the Armenian Genocide and the
elimination of the consequences of the Genocide, preparing to this
end a file of legal claims as a point of departure in the process of
restoring individual, communal and pan-Armenian rights and legitimate
interests."
In his latest article Ter-Petrosyan again contended that the
Pan-Armenian Declaration does not aim to solve neither of the two
"vital" political problems facing Armenia - normalization with Turkey
and settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.
Furthermore, he wrote, it will only inevitably cause new obstacles
in the matter of overcoming these problems.
"This document written in the confrontational spirit will make Turkey
assume a tougher position towards Armenia both in the matter of
Armenian-Turkish normalization and in the settlement of the Karabakh
conflict," Ter-Petrosyan claimed. "And this, at best, means preserving
the status quo with all the negative consequences for Armenia and
Karabakh, including economic decline, dwindling investments, political
isolation, growing emigration, etc.."
http://armenianow.com/news/politics/61630/armenia_terpetrosyan_turkey_relations