Dashnakcutyun: recognition of Armenian genocide not anti-turkish policy

YEREVAN, March 5. / ARKA /. The policy of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not anti-Turkish, said a representative of the Supreme Body of Dashnakcutyun, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Armenian Parliament on Foreign Relations Armen Rustamyan.

"Turkey must understand that the process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is not an anti-Turkish process. This is a policy condemning crimes against humanity. No one considers the recognition of the Holocaust as an anti-German policy," Roustamyan said on Friday at a press conference at the International Press Center Novosti.

Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Congress approved the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide on March 4.

For the adoption of the resolution on the Armenian Genocide there were 23 congressmen, and 22 were against it.

The document, consisting of 30-points document (resolution number 252) calls upon the U.S. President to accept decent decisions on those matters that relate to human rights and freedoms, ethnic cleansing and the genocide of Armenians.

According to the deputy, Turkey considers the process of recognition of the Genocide as being aimed against the Turkish state and people and constantly imposes sanctions, including economic ones as well, against countries that recognize the Genocide, and classifies some states to the number of its enemies.

As Roustamyan recalled, it is precisely for this reason that some U.S. corporations fearing multi-billion dollar losses have requested not to vote on the resolution.
A number of corporate aviation and military industries in the U.S. have sent letters to lawmakers of the U.S. Congress, urging not to adopt a resolution on the Armenian Genocide on the eve of voting on a resolution recognizing the genocide.

Armenian genocide (1915-1923) was the first genocide committed in XX century.

Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.

As a result of massacres and deportations about 1.5 million people were killed, 350 thousands of Armenians fled to the Caucasus and Europe and 150 thousand of the 2 million Armenians were left in Turkey living there at the beginning of XX century.

The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, 42 of the 50 U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian parliament. --0--