HERITAGE PARTY ADDRESSES THOSE WHO AVOID VISITING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
May 13, 2010 – 16:08 AMT 11:08 GMT
On May 13, 2010, Heritage party issued an address to those who avoid
visiting the Armenian Genocide Memorial.
"Heritage Party and its parliamentary group consider the Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president Mevlut
Cavusoglu’s decision to not visit the Armenian Genocide Memorial
to be a behavior that is unbecoming of the head of this prestigious
European organization. And during their meeting with Mr. Cavusoglu
today, Heritage’s MPs will inform him about this, in person. We deem
impermissible the fact that PACE’s current president is acting against
the spirit of the 1987, 2000, 2002 and 2005 decisions by the European
Parliament-the directly elected legislative body of the European
Union, which has formally recognized the Armenian genocide-and is
being guided by a whim that is solely characteristic of a nationalist.
This conduct is also a challenge against the universal norms, the
benchmarks of European values, and the aspirations of Turkey which
pretends to enter into the European family," the statement says.
"With such demeanor, Mr. Cavusoglu explicitly confesses that
he does not consider himself as the head of an influential
institution-comprising a multinational European family-that pursues
the implementation of democratic processes and the protection of
human rights, but, rather, as a Turkish official who, presently having
assumed the duties of the PACE president, seems to want to make use
of this institution’s leverage for the benefit of Turkey’s nowadays
leaders and Azerbaijan."
It goes on saying, "In the view of Heritage, Mevlut Cavusoglu, who,
because of the fixation to deny the tragedy of the Armenian people-who
have been subjected to a genocide and have lost their homeland-and
disguising his current official stay in Armenia as that of a working
visit and refusing to stop at Tsitsernakaberd, is one of those Turkish
politicians whose statements and political conduct demonstrate that he
is a modern-day follower of the Kemalist-Bolshevik conspiracy "deal"
of the past.
It is apparent, therefore, as to the objectives Mr. Cavusoglu
is pursuing through his unconcealed steps being taken toward
the new makeup of the PACE subcommittee on the Nagorno Karabakh
Republic affairs. With this statement, Heritage yet again affirms
for this Turkish political figure, and his supporters and probable
"instructors," that the real issue at hand is the de jure international
recognition of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, which is already
established de facto. And the outstanding matter is the return of
the territories which, defined by Artsakh’s constitution and under
international law, belong to Artsakh and which are under Azerbaijani
occupation to this day. And PACE’s leadership can, and is obligated
to, mediate with the aim of peacefully resolving these questions."
Heritage Party once more called on Armenia’s authorities to officially
recognize independence of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic.
The statement ends, saying, "No Turkish official, nor any other
foreigner who refuse visiting Tsitsernakaberd, can erase, or send
into oblivion, the reality of the Armenian Genocide and the Great
Dispossession of Homeland, and the just cause and the truthful vision
of all Armenians."