26 April 2004, 14:26
World community have legal grounds to recognize Armenian Genocide, says advisor to president of Nagorny Karabakh
On April 24, the day of memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey in the beginning of the 20th century, representatives of the public and government in Nagorny Karabakh traditionally visit the Memorial Complex and commemorate the genocide victims.
Armen Zalinian, advisor to the president of the Nagorno-Karabakh republic, presented an article in the local press in which he mentioned facts allowing the world community to recognize the genocide, which has been denied by the Turkish republic hitherto. The given facts show that as early as 1878, Great Britain, Russia, France, and Italy adopted a joint declaration obliging the Turkish government to stop Armenian pogroms and to launch reforms aimed at improving social and economic conditions for Armenians living in Turkey. Then other international documents denouncing Turkey's policy and rating it as "the killing of the entire people" were adopted. In opinion of Armen Zalinian, it is not accidental that cases of mass killing of Armenians were registered in Turkey in the beginning of World War I, when the world community were unable to launch humanitarian intervention.
Author: Naira Ayrumian, CK correspondent Source: Caucasian Knot
