TARC FINISHED WHAT WAS SET OUT TO DO
PanARMENIAN.Net
02.05.2007 18:07 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "We finished what was set out to do, and that is the
only reason. We initially expected our agreed work to take one year,
it stretched to almost three years before we could conclude the joint
recommendations to the governments," Van Krikorian, Co-chair of the
Turkish Armenian Reconciliation Commission (TARC) said in an interview
with PanARMENIAN.Net.
"That process also saw the joint issuance of the legal opinion on
the applicability of the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention
by the International Center for Transitional Justice finding
the legal definition of genocide applied, and several other joint
accomplishments. Of course, we recognize how many mischaracterizations
of the process and the products took place, but the participants knew
what was really taking place and were able to conclude the work,"
he said.
The TARC functioned from June 2001 to April 2004.