HERITAGE PARTY CONDEMNS REFUSAL OF PACE PRESIDENT TO VISIT GENOCIDE MEMORIAL AT TSITSERNAKABERD
ArmInfo
2010-05-13 16:19:00
ArmInfo. "The Heritage Party and its parliamentary fraction consider
the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) president
Mevlut Cavusoglu’s decision to not visit the Armenian Genocide
Memorial, at Tsitsernakaberd in Yerevan, 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",- says today’s statement by Heritage.
"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.
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 Mountainous Karabagh
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 Mountainous Karabagh 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.
The Heritage Party once more calls Armenia’s authorities to officially
recognize the established independence of the Mountainous Karabagh
Republic. And 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",- says
the statement.