SARGSYAN’S INVITATION TO TURKEY’S FUTURE LEADER WAS BATTLE CALL, SAYS DASHNAK POLITICIAN

21:17 * 29.05.14

The call which the Armenian president made earlier this week, inviting
Turkey’s future leader to Yerevan for the 2015 Genocide centennial
events, was a kind of battle call to the country, according to a senior
representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaksutyun.

“This is no longer an invitation for watching a football match;
it is rather a battle call to Turkey in response to the country’s
renewed policies of denial. I believe we will frequently eyewitness
the continuation of those policies until April 24,” Giro Manoyan, the
head of the party’s International Secretariat in Yerevan, told Tert.am.

President Serzh Sargsyan voiced the call at the Genocide centennial
commemoration commission’s meeting on Tuesday. He said particularly
that the Turkish authorities have to be in the country, next to the
Armenians next year if they are really interested in knowing the
historical truth.

Asked why Turkey hasn’t responded to the statement so far, the
politician said he doesn’t think that a failure to do so would be
surprising at all. “I don’t rule out the possibility of their attempt
to ignore the statement just as they did in 2005. After they proposed
creating a commission of historians, Armenia’s then president [Robert
Kocharyan] wrote a letter, warning against leaving the entire burden
to historians, and calling efforts to set up a government commission
and establish diplomatic solutions. But they were telling lies to the
world for three years on end, saying that ‘Armenia has not responded
to our proposal’. I suppose they will demonstrate the same attitude
to this statement,” Manoyan said, adding that he doesn’t think Turkey
expected such a response by Armenia.

Armenian News – Tert.am

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress