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NEW OPENINGS ABOUT ANM AND DASHNAKTSUTYUN

Politics

The key issues of today’s roundtable in the club “Mirror” were the recognition of the 1915 genocide and the present phase of the Armenian - Turkish relations. In connection with the genocide and the party’s foreign policy the member of the party Armenian National Movement (ANM) Aram Manukyan announced that the party always guided with the following motto, “There are not eternal enemies, relatives and interest”. Aram Manukyan reminded that 11 countries recognized the Armenian genocide by the year 1998. “The recognition of the Genocide was one of the provisions of the Independence Declaration. As a result of Armenia’s current diplomacy our neighboring 3 countries made a new strategic treaty thus becoming military companions, whereas Armenia is in involved in a treaty the members of which are neither our neighbors nor democratic countries.”

Before answering his opponent the member of the Dashnaktsutyun Bureau Kiro Manoyan expressed his gladness on the participation of the ANM in the Genocide recognition process and added, “As far as I know Turkey agreed to establish diplomatic ties with Armenia when the ANM was still in power demanding not to raise the question of recognition and prevent the Diaspora to refer to that matter. Turkey didn’t establish any relations with Armenia, and the number of the countries recognizing the Armenian genocide increased when the matter was put on the agenda of the RA foreign policy.” Mr. Manukyan refuted the data of his opponent and assured that Turkey never made such a demand to the ANM. The participants of the roundtable have different opinions on the consequence in case the genocide is recognized by the Turkish side. “The recognition of the genocide is a political matter, that’s why the Turks don’t do it. According to the international right there is no crime without its adequate consequence. Provided Turkey acknowledges the genocide, the country will have to eliminate its consequence,” claimed Kiro Manoyan. Aram Manukyan gave a shorter answer, “If the country heads the population to the idea, people become tools. I think that ideas must serve people and not the vice versa.”