VARDAN OSKANIAN: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EXPECT ARMENIA TO BE CONSISTENT IN GENOCIDE RECOGNITION ISSUE

PanARMENIAN.Net - During today's press conference Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian said that today the Turkish parliament has launched hearings upon completion of which letters referring in part to the Genocide recognition will be sent to the parliaments of many states, including the UK parliament, despite the fact that the book titled "The Blue Book", which describes the first genocide of the 20-th century, was published in that very state in 1916. "This action will seriously undermine Turkey's authority and will have an boomerang effect", Vardan Oskanian stated. In his words, to date Turkish intellectuals speak loud of the Genocide though the government prefers not to hear them. Turkey does not recognize the Genocide, moreover it denies it. Such behavior proves that we, Armenians, should not forget the crime committed against our people. Today's Armenia faces the problem of Nagorno Karabakh and Turkey exerts every effort to support Azerbaijan. "Taking into account all this, we cannot live in safety. The international community expects us to be consistent in the issue of the Genocide recognition", the Minister noted. "On the threshold of the 90-th anniversary of the Genocide we should be as consistent and determined as never before", Vardan Oskanian stressed. When commenting on the negotiations on Turkey's EU membership to open this October Vardan Oskanian noted that the EU did not make demand of Turkey to recognize the Genocide, though the issue will be undoubtedly discussed during the hearings.