“Genocide cannot become a card”
Speaker of the RA Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan addressed a message on the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide which particularly reads: "The greater part of a creative people was destroyed, deported and bereft of its Homeland, their only guilt being Armenians. That was a crime not only against the Armenian people, but also against all humanity."
The Armenian Genocide is not to be discussed "though some would like to play this card." No document can call the fact of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire into question. No process must be viewed as refusal to get the Genocide recognized. Steps forward must not be made at the expense of historical facts, says the message.
"No one can nor has any right to forget the non-healing wound, the Genocide, as restoring historical justice is interwoven with the feelings of our souls. At the same time, it must give us strength to find a future that would not impede Armenia's progress, enhance our role in international and regional processes," says the message.
