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Discussing Armenian genocide from political angle, Armenia has made itself a target for turkey: political expert

Armenia Materials 23 November 2006 16:31 (UTC +04:00)

(ArmInfo) -. Discussing the issue of Armenian Genocide of 1915 in Ottoman Turkey from the political angle, Armenia has made itself a target for Turkey, said Levon Zurabyan, a well-known native political expert, at the Discussion Club "Mirror," Thursday. L. Zurabyan had occupied the post of the press secretary of the first president of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan for long years, reports Trend.

L. Zurabyan believes that foreign countries adopting resolutions on recognition of Armenian genocide act within their political interests and not from sympathy for Armenia and Armenians. Discussion of the problem from the political angle will not lead to a war with Turkey, but the economic damage from this is evident, L. Zurabyan said. He mentioned the policy of the administration of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, when the issue of Armenian Genocide was in the moral plan, scientific conference were held and the Genocide Museum opened. Due to such policy, in 1992, at the height of military actions, Turkey, which openly supported Azerbaijan, allow transporting 50 tons of flour via its territory to Armenia, which was an unprecedented act, L. Zurabyan said.

In his turn, MP Ruben Hovsepyan, a member of ARFD faction, stated that Turkey could give such permission only in exchange for something else. He said that the Genocide problem must be further discussed from the political angle like the world does it. It is not Armenia's invention and there is nothing Turkey can do, he said. The moral category brings nothing, while now more and more countries recognize the Armenian Genocide.

Leader of the Union for Self-Determination party Paruyr Hairkyan stated that Armenia has done nothing for recognition of the Armenian genocide. Armenia has not adopted a bill criminalizing the denial of Armenian Genocide on the example of France, Armenia does not dispute the provisions of Kars and Moscow Treaties of 1921 which actually legalized the Genocide. "How can it demand anything from others?" P. Hairikyan asked. He harshly criticized also the administration of Levon Ter-Petrosyan. "They actually refused from this problem and made up to Turkey," he said.

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