EVENTS DEDICATED TO WOODROW WILSON’S MEMORY HELD IN ARMENIA
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 16 2006
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 16, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The November
16 event organized at the Armenian Union of Writers was dedicated
to the 150th anniversary of 28th U.S. President, Nobel prize-winner,
Armenia’s great friend Woodrow Wilson. In the words of Levon Ananian,
Chairman of the Armenian Union of Writers, the Armenian people has
always highly estimated W.Wilson’s activity for the sake of Armenian
people and numbers him among such friends of Armenia as Anatole Franz,
Fridtjof Nansen, Johann Lepsius, Franz Werfel and other great people.
In 1920 W.Wilson made decision On Delimitation Between Turkey
and Armenia, Armenia’s Outlet to the Sea and Demilitarization of
Turkish Territories Adjacent to Armenian Borders having a historic
significance. According to the decision, Wilson completed and
ratified Articles 88-89 of the Treaty of Sevres giving them an
international-legal final form.
In the words of Rafael Hambartsumian, Chairman of Board of the Azgayin
Miasnutian Ukht Party, the Treaty of Sevres signed on 1920 August 10
is considered a document that has preserved its international legal
significance up to present. But, according to the Party Chairman,
it is more than 80 years the Treaty of Sevres is presented wrongly in
the History of Armenian People textbooks. Six out of 480 points of the
treaty concern Armenia, but none of this points has been fulfilled,
while ten states achieved independence by this treaty. "The main reason
of Armenians’ failure was the policy carried on by the Bolshevik
Russia, as it had contacts with Turkey and would not permit Armenia
to have an integral territory," R.Hambartsumian said. In his words,
the treaty also envisaged to create a large Armenian community in
Turkey, which, however, was not realized. In R.Hambartsumian’s words,
a number of measures and mechanisms should be worked out today for
using the treaty.
For perpetuating the name of Armenian people’s friend W.Wilson
the Azagayin Miasnutian Ukht Party members proposed naming streets,
schools after him in Yerevan and in the regions, erecting a monument to
Wilson in Yerevan, releasing stamps dedicated to his 150th anniversary,
as well as holding Wislon Days in Armenia and Diaspora.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
