Genocide never to be questioned

At today’s press-conference Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandyan said Armenia didn’t see any reasons to abandon the process of international recognition of issue of Genocide. This statement was made as journalists mentioned that foreign media outlets had reported such suggestions after Armenian-Turkish protocols signing ceremony in Zurich.

According to Mr. Nalbandyan, anything unsaid in a couple of articles among wide circulation cannot show any trends. He stressed that Armenian leadership had repeatedly stated would never question Genocide and importance of its recognition.

“Armenian Genocide recognition is a matter that concerns not only Armenian people but all humanity in order that such crimes could never happen again,” said Armenian FM adding that Armenia always welcomes Genocide recognition initiated in other countries. He also mentioned that more than 20 states have officially characterized and recognized mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a Genocide. Moreover 3 states had recognized Armenian Genocide long before Armenia’s sovereignty. Besides, two members of the U.S. Senate have recently introduced legislation calling on President Barack Obama to officially term the 1915-1918 mass killings and deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire a Genocide. Senators Robert Menendez and John Ensign who drafted the resolution urge to “accurately characterize the systematic and deliberate annihilation of 1,500,000 Armenians as genocide.”