Author: Kajoyan Gevork

YET ANOTHER STRIKE FROM EUROPE

Cihan News Agency (CNA)
April 10, 2015 Friday

by GUNAL KURÞUN

ÝSTANBUL (CÝHAN)- While President Recep Tayyip Erdoðan is on his trip
to Iran, the Venice Commission — an advisory body of the Council of
Europe (CoE) composed of independent legal experts — declared that
it plans to examine Turkey’s security package, which it considers
“unacceptable.”

“If you use all the restrictive measures taken by individual countries
and put them together, then you get the new law here in Turkey. They
have taken the most restrictive practices,” Anne Brasseur, president
of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said.

As of today, after the new law entered into force, the police can
take people into custody without the authorization of a public
prosecutor for up to 48 hours, which violates Article 5 of the
European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) dealing with the right
to liberty and security. Judicial review, access to a lawyer and
the right to inform family members of one’s detention are some
of the rights that will be violated. Police officers are even now
entitled to prevent demonstrators from protesting. At the same time,
police can stop and search a vehicle without a written notice from a
court or public prosecutor, as well as conduct strip searches. This
is a clear violation of Article 8, which provides for the right to
respect individual’s private lives. If a citizen decides to join a
demonstration or a public meeting but wears a gas mask in order to be
protected from pepper spray, there is a potential prison sentence of
two years and six months to four years — a clear violation of Article
11 which provides for the freedom of assembly and association. The
authority of police officers to use firearms has also now been extended
and can be used to “neutralize the affect.” This is in violation of
the principle of proportionality and Article 2, which provides for
the right to life. In addition, governors are now entitled to order
security forces to find “the perpetrators of crime.”

We know all too well how security forces in Turkey find perpetrators,
and I believe it will constitute another violation of both Articles
5 and 6. This will also create chaos in authority between public
prosecutors and governors, as the two sides enjoy their broad power
of authority at the same time.

According to Brasseur, the protection of a country’s national security
“cannot go as far as limiting all words of freedoms. There is a
very big danger.” She continued: “In the election period and after
elections we have to look at that law. The Council of Europe has the
Venice Commission as an instrument to monitor legislation. For the
security package, Turkey did not ask for the opinion of the Venice
Commission, but I think that we have to look deeper into it. We must
maintain fundamental freedoms.”

In my opinion, our state loves us very much. Our police want to
protect us from any kind of danger. That’s why President Erdoðan,
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoðlu and all members of the Justice and
Development Party (AKP) invite Turkish citizens to stay at home,
rather than go out. My experience indicates that whenever my state
loves me too much, I should be afraid.

At the same time, Martin Schulz, the president of the European
Parliament, is now visiting Turkey. Some items on his agenda include
visa liberalization, the resumption of talks for the reunification of
Cyprus and the negotiations expected to start in 2015 to upgrade the
customs union between the EU and Turkey. Also on the table during
Schulz’s talks in Ankara will be the European Parliament vote on
a resolution that would recognize the 1915 killings of Armenians
as genocide on April 15 — the one hundredth anniversary of the
commemorations.

The Irish author Iris Murdoch said: “We live in a fantasy world,
a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” It
is unbelievable that she said this without seeing Turkey in 2015.

THE CONFLICT AROUND THE ‘G WORD’

Huffington Post
April 14 2015

Arzu Kaya Uranli , Independent Journalist & Lecturer

Pope Francis on last Sunday honored the 100th anniversary of the
slaughter of Armenians by calling it “the first genocide of the
20th century.”

Francis, who has close ties to the Armenian community from his days
in Argentina, defended his declaration by saying it was his duty to
honor the memory of the innocent men, women, children, priests and
bishops who were “senselessly” murdered.

A politically explosive pronouncement angered Turkey. After Pope
Francis had called the 1915 mass killings in Armenia a genocide, most
of the Turkish people are so disappointed and officials considers
the pope’s comments had caused a “problem of trust”.

Meanwhile, the reality star Kim Kardashian along with her husband,
Kanye West, and other family members are on a journey to Armenia to
mark the 100th anniversary of the “Armenian genocide” in Yerevan.

During the trip, a film crew will accompany them to shoot several
episodes of the reality series, Keeping up with the Kardashians.

Kardashian announced that she will be visiting the Tsitsernakaberd
Memorial in the capital, Yerevan, but will not attend any official
commemoration. Since her late father, Robert Kardashian, was a
third-generation Armenian-American, she has for years — and on
several occasions publicly — supported the international recognition
of the Armenian genocide, and now, for the first time, is visiting
Armenia. But Kim Kardashian is not the only one paying extra attention
to the issue this year.

Given that relations between Turkey and the U.S. have not been going
well recently, many people believe this might be the year when U.S.

President Barack Obama uses the “G word.” Forty-nine U.S. lawmakers
have already sent a letter urging President Obama to recognize the
“Armenian genocide.” They claim this move would somehow help improve
relations between Turkey and Armenia. As you might remember, during
the 2008 presidential race President Obama promised to recognize
“the mass killing of Armenians” as “genocide” and Armenian-Americans
are more hopeful that this year he will keep his promise.

The term “genocide” was first coined and defined by Polish lawyer
Raphael Lemkin in 1943 to describe the massacre of ethnic Armenians by
the Ottoman authorities in what is now Turkey. Armenians claim that
during World War I, 1.5 million Armenians were either killed or died
during forced exile in an intentional effort to completely destroy
the Armenian minority in Eastern Turkey. Nevertheless, despite Turkey
accepting that there were mass killings and forced deportations, as a
state it has argued that “genocide” is not an appropriate term. Turkey
has instead continued lobbying against the recognition of the 1915
events as genocide, arguing that the acts were a result of war and
that the number has been inflated.

I have just finished a book by Turkey’s Armenian journalist Hayko
Bagdat entitled The Snail (Salyangoz), and realized once more how
difficult it has been for the Armenian minority to be “the other”
in Turkey for centuries and that exile is only a small part of that
ongoing inequity. Recognition of this mass killing with a proper term
could be a strong starting point to heal the wounds in the hearts
of Armenians. Yet Ankara is not even close to expressing any form of
regret for what took place in history after all this time.

Ironically, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the
100th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I would
be held on April 24. Choosing the same date that Armenians around
the world annually observe as Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day is
absurd. Even pro-government Turkish-Armenian author and columnist
Etyen Mahcupyan, who currently serves as a top adviser to Prime
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, accused President Erdogan of not being
“chic” over the decision and claimed that Erdogan acted unethically
to gain nationalist votes during the June 7 election.

So far, 22 countries have formally recognized the historical event as
“genocide.” In addition, 43 American states have accepted its status
as such. Nonetheless, apparently, when it comes to the U.S., it seems
it is very important to Turkey if Obama uses the “G word.” Several
high-level Turkish officials have visited Washington since January
to convince the U.S. not to. Nowadays, Foreign Minister Mevlut
CavuÃ…~_oglu is expected to visit Washington just before Obama’s
statement for the same reason. The freshly established Turkish
Institute for Progress, a new Turkish-American lobby group that
aims to bring about reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia, has
neglected to label the 1915 killings.

Yet, it is certain that in 1915, an ‘outrageous thing’ happened in
Anatolia that had not taken place in the 1000 years before. Historians
have the task to find out what exactly happened in detail and
enlighten all related documents to create a single repository, so
that politicians on both sides can assess the findings and guide the
international community to make a decision to evaluate the situation.

Instead of fighting over whether what happened in 1915 is genocide or
not, why don’t we first consider it genoexile, a portmanteau meaning
“sending a race to exile”? Obviously, the techniques of destruction
used by the Americans against Native Americans or by the Germans
against Jews were different than what happened to the Armenians at
the moment.

While establishing Republic of Turkey to create a nation-state the
Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) pitted people against each
other. We all know today that Armenians were not the only victims of
this act, but Kurds, Alevits and all other minorities were as well.

What happened was not acceptable and the CUP was the responsible
party. Regardless, Turkey should apologize for those incidents of
its past because problems cannot be solved with announcements by
the Pope or the U.S. president. The problem can be solved only if
the Armenian nation and the Turkish nation work together. In the
twenty-first century, and within our communication age it’s about
time these two nations found a way to discuss this taboo. This is a
mutual sorrow that needs a mutual solution.

As a Turkish American, I whole-heartedly believe that rather than
lobbying the U.S. Congress at this time of year to stop using the “G
word,” we should be offering different solutions and creating a new
commemoration day. There is still profound grief over the issue and
100 years is long enough a period of denial. It is time we face it and
find a common ground to solve the conflict and heal the deep wounds.

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POPE ARMENIAN ‘GENOCIDE’ SPEECH SPARKS BITTER ROW WITH TURKEY

Agence France Presse
April 12, 2015 Sunday 7:19 PM GMT

Vatican City, April 12 2015

Pope Francis uttered the word “genocide” on Sunday to describe the
mass murder of Armenians 100 years ago, sparking fury from Turkey
which slammed the term as “far from historical reality”.

In a solemn mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica to mark the centenary
of the Ottoman killings of Armenians, Francis said the murders were
“widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th century’,” quoting
a statement signed by Pope John Paul II and the Armenian patriarch
in 2001.

Many historians describe the World War I slaughter as the 20th
century’s first genocide, but Turkey vehemently denies the accusations.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lashed out at Francis for
“inappropriate” and “one-sided” comments, saying that “to read these
sorrows in a one-sided way is inappropriate for the pope and the
authority that he holds.”

A furious Ankara said it was recalling its ambassador to the Vatican,
Mehmet Pacaci, for consultations.

“The pope’s statement, which is far from the legal and historical
reality, cannot be accepted,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu
said on Twitter.

“Religious authorities are not the places to incite resentment and
hatred with baseless allegations,” he added.

While Francis did not use his own words to describe the killings
as genocide, it was the first time the term was spoken aloud in
connection with Armenia by a head of the Roman Catholic Church in
Saint Peter’s Basilica.

“It was a very courageous act to repeat clearly that it was a
genocide,” Vatican expert Marco Tosatti told AFP.

“By quoting John Paul II, he strengthened the Church’s position,
making it clear where it stands on the issue,” he added.

– ‘Honour their memory’ –

The Argentine pope described the “immense and senseless slaughter”
and spoke of the duty to “honour their memory, for whenever memory
fades, it means that evil allows wounds to fester.”

The 78-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church had been under
pressure to use the term “genocide” publicly to describe the slaughter,
despite the risk of alienating an important ally in the fight against
radical Islam.

Before becoming pope, Jorge Bergoglio used the word several times in
events marking the mass murders, calling on Turkey to recognise the
killings as such.

As pope, Francis is said to have used it once during a private audience
in 2013 — but even that sparked an outraged reaction from Turkey.

Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their kin were killed between 1915
and 1917 as the Ottoman Empire was falling apart, and have long sought
to win international recognition of the massacres as genocide.

But Turkey rejects the claims, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000
Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose
up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops.

More than 20 nations, including France and Russia, recognise the
killings as genocide.

Vatican expert John Allen said ahead of the mass that the “truly bold”
thing for Francis to do was “show restraint” — something the pope
may feel he has achieved by uttering the word “genocide” but only
while quoting his Polish predecessor.

– ‘Decapitated, crucified, burned alive’ –

When Francis visited Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered the
pontiff a pact under which he would defend Christians in the Middle
East in exchange for the Church tackling Islamophobia in the West,
Allen said — describing it as “a potential game-changer”.

In 2014, Erdogan, then premier, offered condolences for the mass
killings for the first time, but the country still blames unrest and
famine for many of the deaths.

The pope said Sunday the other two genocides of the 20th century were
“perpetrated by Nazism and Stalinism”, before pointing to more recent
mass killings in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi and Bosnia.

“It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding
of innocent blood,” he said.

The Armenian victims a century ago were Christian and although the
killings were not openly driven by religious motives, the pontiff drew
comparisons with modern Christian refugees fleeing Islamic militants.

He referred once again to the modern day as “a time of war, a third
world war which is being fought piecemeal”, and evoked the “muffled
and forgotten cry” of those “decapitated, crucified, burned alive,
or forced to leave their homeland.”

“Today too we are experiencing a sort of genocide created by general
and collective indifference,” he said.

Vatican watcher Marco Politi said the address was typical of a pope
who “uses language without excessive diplomatic cares” and whose
aim was to “stimulate the international community” to intervene in
modern-day persecutions.

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PACE PRESIDENT VISITS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MEMORIAL IN YEREVAN

15:29, 14 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)
Anne Brasseur visited the Tsitsernakaberd memorial today accompanied
by Hermine Naghdalyan, Vice-Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly.

The PACE President laid a wreath at the memorial to the Armenian
Genocide victims and paid homage to the memory of the innocent victims
with a minute of silence.

Deputy Director of the Armenian Genocide Museum Institute gifted AGMI
publications to Anne Brasseur.

ANTONY : UN MEMORIAL POUR SE SOUVENIR DU GENOCIDE ARMENIEN 100 ANS APROS

REVUE DE PRESSE

Le 25 avril 1915, les premiers intellectuels armeniens etaient
arretes. Suivirent de long mois de persecutions, massacres,
deportations. Plus d’un million d’Armeniens ont peri au cours de ce
genocide, le premier de l’Histoire contemporaine.

Un siècle plus tard, de très nombreuses commemorations sont programmees
dans les Hauts-de-Seine comme partout en France alors que la Republique
turque refuse toujours de reconnaître l’existence meme du genocide.

Samedi matin, dans le domaine departemental de Sceaux, un memorial
etait inaugure en presence de Patrick Devedjian, president UMP du
conseil departemental et fils d’exile armenien. Un aigle au corps
d’homme, sculpture de l’artiste Toros, qui symbolise >. Vicken Tchitetchian,
ambassadeur d’Armenie en France

>, ajoute-t-il, rappelant ensuite dans son discours que le lieu
de memoire situe dans le desert syrien, la meme où les deportes
armeniens perirent, a ete la cible de Daech. >, souligne le president
du conseil departemental, qui accompagnera Francois Hollande a Erevan
le 24 avril pour les ceremonies du centenaire.

Parmi la centaine de personnes venues samedi matin, de nombreux
enfants et petits-enfants d’Armeniens exiles. >

mardi 14 avril 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

HALF OF THE MONEY NECESSARY FOR SERVICEMAN’S TREATMENT COLLECTED

13:43 | April 14,2015 | Social

The fundraising organized by the initiative of citizens for the
continuation of treatment of Gevorg Yeghiazaryan abroad continues.

Gevorg Yeghiazaryan received a gunshot wound at the military position
in Martakert region while on combat duty at his military post on
December 27, 2011.

In the interview with “A1+” the soldier’s mother Naira Galstyan
informed that due to the fundraising AMD14.5 million had been
collected, which is only half of 56 000 US dollars necessary for
Gevorg’s treatment abroad.

Gevorg’s mother says that now her son’s condition is stable, citizens
continue visiting, calling and offering their support. For the last
time Ministry of Defense contacted them to transfer AMD 300 000.

In the name of Gevorg Yeghiazaryan’s father Edik Yeghiazaryan,
accounts have been opened at “UniBank”.

AMD 24100321447500

USD 24100321447501

EUR 24100321447502

Money transfers are also possible from abroad through Gofundme
website-

>, DE BERNARD ANTONY

Livres

Bernard Antony

Dimanche, en la Basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome, le pape Francois a
solennellement accompli le devoir de memoire de l’immense barbarie
exterminatrice appelee >planifie par le regime
Jeune-Turc et declenche pour sa phase essentielle, il y aura un siècle,
le 24 avril 1915.

Avec raison, Francois a rapproche cette memoire de l’immense
abomination de ce que a ete forge et defini en 1928 par Raphaël
Lemkin, le modèle initial a ete le processus concu et mis en oeuvre
pour aneantir > par Robespierre et les montagnards
de la Convention. On doit a Maître Gilles-William Goldnadel, dans sa
preface au livre de Reynald Secher >, une
remarquable synthèse de la continuite genocidaire des totalitarismes :
jacobinisme, panturquisme, nazisme et communisme.

5) Les dirigeants Jeunes-Turcs, souvent formes dans nos universites,
furent tous de grands admirateurs de la Revolution francaise. On ne
l’occulte nullement dans l’article consacre a , les dirigeants jeunes-turcs
voulaient d’une Turquie debarrassee de toute autre religion et de
toute autre identite nationale et culturelle que celles de l’islam.

Ils furent constamment soutenus par le Grand Mufti ottoman, portant
le titre de >.

Le genocide principalement perpetre en 1915-1916 fut acheve de 1918
a 1922 par les exterminations des Assyro-Chaldeens de Mesopotamie,
dont les rescapes furent aneantis en 1933 par le nouvel Etat irakien
; par celui des Grecs de Smyrne et du Pont ; par celui des derniers
Armeniens de Cilicie sous mandat francais.

La connivence maconnique entre Mustapha Kemal et Aristide Briand
entraîna l’odieux abandon de ces derniers a la constante sauvagerie
sadique des bourreaux turcs, dans le mepris du sang verse par des
milliers de nos soldats et de volontaires armeniens de notre Legion
d’Orient.

Bernard Antony

* Pour commander le livre > (sortie prevue le 24
avril, 20 euros franco de port) : au Centre Charlier, 70 boulevard
saint-Germain, 75005 Paris.

mardi 14 avril 2015, Jean Eckian (c)armenews.com

EN TURQUIE, UNE NOUVELLE GENERATION MOINS HOSTILE AU TERME DE > ARMENIEN

1915-2015

Des propos “inacceptables”, “partiaux” et “inappropries”. La Turquie
s’est violemment faite entendre après le discours du pape Francois,
qui a publiquement affirme que les Armeniens ont ete victimes du
“premier genocide du XXe siècle”.

Pourtant, si le pape a ete le premier souverain pontife a affirmer
si clairement sa position en faveur des Armeniens – plus encore que
ne l’avait fait Jean Paul II -, les Turcs sont aussi de plus en plus
nombreux a utiliser le terme “genocide”. N’en deplaise au gouvernement
islamo-conservateur du Parti pour la justice et le developpement (AKP)
et au president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ou a l’extreme droite turque.

Une nouvelle generation s’empare du sujet

L’economiste turc Ahmet Insel et le philosophe francais d’origine
armenienne Michel Marian ont publie Dialogue sur le tabou armenien
(Ed. Liana Levi, 2009), premier ouvrage où deux intellectuels
evoquent librement cette epineuse question. Recemment, ils ont repris
conjointement la parole, interroges sur Slate par la specialiste de
la Turquie Ariane Bonzon, pour evoquer ce qui n’est definitivement
plus un tabou dans la societe turque.

Lire la suite, voir lien plus bas

mardi 14 avril 2015, Jean Eckian (c)armenews.com

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VATICAN-PAPE-RELIGION-DIPLOMATIE-TURQUIE

En denoncant le genocide armenien, le pape defend les chretiens
persecutes aujourd’hui

Cite du Vatican, 13 avr 2015 (AFP) – En condamnant le “genocide” des
Armeniens sous l’Empire Ottoman, le pape Francois a voulu defendre
les chretiens persecutes aujourd’hui, au risque de se brouiller avec
la Turquie, acteur influent pour la paix au Moyen-Orient.

Quand, un siècle après ces grands massacres, il a prononce dimanche
dans la basilique Saint-Pierre le terme de “genocide” pour les
qualifier, le pontife argentin etait sûr de toucher une communaute
chretienne au destin tragique.

“Le chemin de l’Eglise est la franchise, elle doit dire les choses
avec liberte”, a observe le pape lundi dans son homelie au Vatican.

“La où il n’y a plus de memoire, le mal tient encore la blessure
ouverte”, avait-il insiste dimanche en elargissant son propos a
l’actualite des violences contre les chretiens, de la Syrie et l’Irak,
du Nigeria au Kenya.

“Nous sommes en train de vivre une sorte de genocide cause par
l’indifference generale. Nos frères et soeurs sans defense, a cause de
leur foi au Christ ou de leur appartenance ethnique, sont publiquement
et atrocement tues (… ou) contraints d’abandonner leur terre”,
a-t-il rappele.

Selon l’ONG chretienne Portes ouvertes, plus de 150 millions de
chretiens souffrent de persecutions dans le monde. Francois avait
denonce a Pâques le “silence complice” de certains dirigeants
occidentaux et musulmans.

En franchissant le pas sur le “genocide” armenien, le pape etait
certain de s’attirer les foudres d’Ankara, qui recuse formellement
le terme et qui a aussitôt rappele son ambassadeur, provoquant une
crise majeure pour la diplomatie vaticane.

Lors de son voyage en Turquie en novembre, Francois avait evite de
prononcer le mot “genocide”. Selon une source informee, le president
turc islamo-conservateur Recep Tayyip Erdogan en avait fait une
condition de sa visite.

Ankara a d’ailleurs vivement reagi dès dimanche en accusant le
souverain pontife d’avoir tenu des propos “inappropries” et en
rappelant son ambassadeur au Vatican.

– Implications geopolitiques –

Pour les Armeniens, 1,5 million des leurs ont ete tues de manière
systematique a la fin de l’Empire Ottoman. La Turquie affirme qu’il
s’agissait d’une guerre civile doublee d’une famine.

Pour l’editorialiste du quotidien catholique francais La Croix
Isabelle de Gaulmyn, si Francois a donne “une certaine solennite a
cette commemoration du genocide armenien, ce n’est donc pas pour le
plaisir de raviver une polemique historique” mais pour que le souvenir
de cette tragedie “evite de retomber dans des horreurs semblables”.

Le pape Francois s’interesse a la question armenienne depuis l’epoque
où il etait archeveque de Buenos Aires, rappelle la vaticaniste du
quotidien Il Messaggero Franca Giansoldati, selon laquelle il est
fondamental de “restaurer la memoire commune, passage fondamental
pour arriver a la paix”.

Andrea Ambrogetti, vaticaniste de Korazym.org, estime en revanche
que Francois a eu le tort de “faire le choix du coeur, plus que
de la raison politique” : “Parler de genocide a des implications
geo-politiques. Il aura pu parler seulement du martyre des Armeniens
chretiens”.

En novembre, la visite du pape en Turquie s’etait soldee par un
dialogue de sourds, Francois se faisant l’avocat d’une alliance des
religions contre le terrorisme tandis que les autorites d’Ankara
denoncaient l’islamophobie.

En Turquie, où le christianisme est arrive très tôt, les chretiens sont
une petite minorite aux droits limites, y compris pour le patriarche
oecumenique de Constantinople, Bartholomee, grand ami du pape Francois.

Le vaticaniste Andrea Tornielli rappelle que les catholiques y
subissent des persecutions, comme l’eveque Luigi Padovese assassine
a Iskenderun en 2010.

“Ces tensions n’aident certes pas au plan geopolitique, alors que la
Turquie a a ses frontières le califat autoproclame” de l’Etat islamique
(EI), observe encore Andrea Tornielli sur le site Vatican Insider.

Par Jean-Louis DE LA VAISSIERE

AFP

mardi 14 avril 2015, Stephane (c)armenews.com

CITY OF RYDE, AUSTRALIA, ADOPTS MOTION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL

15:20, 14 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

The City of Ryde, Australia, has unanimously adopted a motion dedicated
to the centenary of the Armenian Genocide.

The motion, which was adopted, reads:

Whereas 2015 marks the10th anniversary of the City of Ryde passing a
motion recongising the events of 1915-1923 as the Armenian Genocide,
this Council joins with the Armenian-Australian community in marking
the centenary of the Armenian Genocide by resolving to:

(a) honour the memory of the innocent men, women and children who
fell victim to the first modern genocide;

(b) condemn the genocide of the Armenians; and all other acts of
genocide as the ultimate act of racial, religious and cultural
intolerance;

(c) recognise the importance of remembering and learning from such
dark chapters in human history to ensure that such crimes against
humanity are not allowed to be repeated;

(d) condemn and prevents all attempts to use the passage of time to
deny or distort the historical truth of the genocide of the Armenians
and other acts of genocide committed during this century;

(e) recall the testimonies of Australian WWI POWs who lay witness to
the genocide of the Armenians; and

(f) acknowledge the significant humanitarian contribution made by
the people of Australia to the victims and survivors of the Armenian
Genocide

(g) call on the Commonwealth of Australia to recongise and condemn
all genocides including the Armenian Genocide.