Legal Field The Most Favorable For Armenia To Raise Genocide Issue A

LEGAL FIELD THE MOST FAVORABLE FOR ARMENIA TO RAISE GENOCIDE ISSUE AND DEMAND TERRITORIES – ARA PAPYAN

15:30 / 06.02.2015

In 20-40s the Armenians chose the path of demanding their lands,
property but during the years of Cold War voicing the issue of
territorial right in the West was being perceived as pro-soviet
agitation that is why the fight of the Armenian people entered less
dangerous path – recognition of the Armenian Genocide, head of Modus
Vivendi think tank, political analyst Ara Papyan told the reporters
on Friday. According to him, this path was beneficial for all –
the Soviet Union, Turkey, the West.

“It was a step that stemmed from the situation and it was important
for us to keep the idea and spread it. But since late 90s we should
have made changes in the main path as the recognition of genocide does
not mean compensation,” Papyan stressed, adding that nevertheless,
the recognition of Genocide by Turkey will facilitate the activity
of the court as there will not be a political ban.

Papyan said the most important thing for him is the issue of
territories. “Sometimes the issue of whether Armenia has territorial
demand or not is being raised and an impression is being created
that Armenia demands lands belonging to Turkey. There is a border
registered by international legal act which recognizes the current
Republic of Turkey while that time certain territory of the Ottoman
Empire belonged to Armenia. It is de jure Armenian territory occupied
by Republic of Turkey,” he said.

“I have many times spoken about regulating the issue in the legal
field. I am not so naïve to see the issue in political, economic or
military field. I consider it sensible to move the issue to the legal
field which is the only field where we have more favorable position
than Turkey,” he said.

Papyan also stressed that today we does not have good specialists of
international law as the employer of such specialists is the state.

“Till now Armenia has not tried to solve the issue in the international
platform not creating demand for such specialists. We must choose
few young people and send them to study with the condition to
return. Besides there are many specialists in the world including
Armenians,” he said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress