Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan considers that it is wrong to make the words of the U.S. President a major objective
Less than 100 days is left for the Armenian Genocide Centennial, it is too little time left to act. We have put our hope on the Day of Centennial, on this very day. Is it worth being disposed that everything will be determined on this very day? And whether we are doing everything that everything will be decided on that day. In response to the questions of “Aravot”, political analyst Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan said the following, “I would not say that we have set our hope on the anniversary of the Centennial. The authorities of Armenia have repeatedly stated at the highest presidential level that marking the centenary of the Armenian Genocide is not the culmination, and our afterwards efforts aimed at recognition of Genocide shall not cease. No, this is just a full year, a remembrance year, and the events related to it are going to be more intense and active. As to the Armenian issue, then I am sure that in the following years, it will also be one of the main agendas in the foreign policy of Armenia.”
To the next question of whether we can predict that the U.S. President Obama will utter the Armenian Genocide in his statement on April 24, which means official US recognition of the Armenian Cause and the Armenian Genocide, Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan replied, “It’s all the same for me whether or not Obama will utter Armenian Genocide, I also consider that it is wrong to seeing the major goal of whether the US president would say so or not. Not the words but the actions and political processes are important that should come after the recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey’s possible activism to be in our region is also important.” To the next question of whether our time for being true demanding, compensation of our lands and money, property, material and moral damage is close, Hrant Melik-Shahnazaryan replied that followed by the current process, it can be said that the compensation-related issues are quite a lot and still have a problem of solving them.
According to the political analyst, “At this stage, Armenia is reaching an international recognition and condemnation, which happens in very active paces, but the fact is that Turkey has not yet recognized the Armenian Genocide, and all other countries that have already recognized, do not make efforts to make Turkey stand back from its denial policy. Unless Turkey recognizes, it would be too early to address the issues of compensation. Although, everything exists in the Armenian demand, and Armenia should have done everything sooner the better and worked actively to solve the problems of demand and compensation.”
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Eva HAKOBYAN
