DISCUSSION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE BY GERMAN BUNDESTAG QUITE DELICATE
ISSUE: GERMAN MP
YEREVAN, APRIL 12. ARMINFO. MP from Social Democratic Party of Germany
Gernot Erler doubts that German Bundestag will discuss the motion
“Commemoration of Armenians on the 90th Anniversary of Their
Relocation and Massacre on Apr 24 1915 – Germany Should Contribute to
Provide Peace between Turks and Armenians.”
In an interview to Der Tagesspiegel Erler says that next week
Bundestag will discuss the issue only as a motion by his party’s
faction.
But this moot point for German MPs will be further discussed by
special commissions for subsequent submission to Bundestag.
Erler says that his party avoids using the “genocide” term tending to
replace it by “massacre” as the issue is “very delicate” as it is. At
the same time the party demands that Bundestag acknowledges Turkey as
legal successor of Ottoman Empire with its indisputable role towards
the Armenians.
Meanwhile representative of German Greens Fritz Kuhn has said in Der
Tagesspiegel earlier that the 90th anniversary should be given worthy
commemoration including by Turkey itself.
To remind, the author of the motion, CDU/CSU member Christoph Bergner
has told ARMINFO that the motion will be put to discussion at
Bundestag in Apr 21 or 22.