Aram Safaryan, a Prosperous Armenia Party (PAP) MP, speaks of how they killed Hrant Dink.
It is already known that they threaten Valérie Boyer, the author of the bill banning the denial of the Armenian Genocide by the French National Assembly, and his family, about which Mrs. Boyer has stated. Valérie Boyer filed a complaint to the Marseille police on Monday informing about the threats of death and violence against him and his family and an attack on his website.
It is already known today that the French MP and his family will use the service of effective protection. Claude Guéant, the Secretary of the Interior, informed Le Figaro about that, “The threat doesn’t seem too big, but we are not ensured against inadequate actions of anyone”, said the Secretary.
Aram Safaryan, a PAP MP and the head of the Armenian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, commenting on the Turks’ threats directed at Valérie Boyer, observed, “The type of people that threatens and terrorizes the respected member of the French parliament is well-known since the ancient times and in particular since the times when they killed Hrant Dink, I myself don’t see anything new in that, I note sadly that the Turkish society being created in the way of civilization development has been clashing the radical, extreme demonstrations of extreme nationalism – this surely is dangerous and tells yet another time those, who thought that the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide was a parade, it was enough to touch and it would be a success, that they were wrong and calls for vigilance. We knew, know and will know that this process is dangerous, but shame on him who will deny this way.” Aram Safaryan urged “to realize quite well that there is a struggle going on inside the Turkish society between the democrats who are conventionally called liberals, to which I don’t agree, the supporters of human values, people who long for taking the way to civilization, and radical-extremist elements. We, Armenians, witnessed this violent struggle once in the case of Hrant Dink (I don’t speak of older examples) and now we witness it in regard to the French MP.”
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Davit Shahnazaryan, a representative of the Armenian National Congress, observed during a conversation with Radio Liberty (December 26), “I have always thought it was a big mistake to put the issue of international recognition of the Genocide on Armenia’s foreign policy agenda and it only inflicted damages on both the process of the Genocide’s international recognition and the statehood.” Aram Safaryan, a representative of the ruling coalition and a PAP member, doesn’t agree with his opposition colleague on this issue. The latter claims, “I would like to remind that in accordance with Armenian National Security Doctrine adopted in 2005, the issue of the Armenian Genocide’s recognition and international condemnation is perceived as a burning task and the fulfillment of that task aims also at solving the issue of the Armenian national security. Thereby the process of the Armenian Genocide’s recognition is a process that aims at strengthening the Armenian national security. I have supported this viewpoint since 2001, I supported this viewpoint as a researcher in 2005 when the national security doctrine’s development was in progress, I defended and supported the authors, and I do the same thing now. If suddenly (which is impossible) we give in the issue of the Armenian Genocide’s recognition and condemnation, we will substantially weaken our national security positions all over the world.”
MARGARIT YESAYAN
