According to Sergey Shakaryants, no need to criticize the Declaration
On January 29, upon the completion of the session of the State Committee coordinating the events to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the ceremony of publication of the Pan-Armenian Declaration on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was held at the Genocide Memorial site, which was unanimously passed during the session of the State Committee coordinating the events to commemorate the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The above mentioned document was read by President Serzh Sargsyan. It was announced that the Alma copy of the Declaration shall be given to the Armenian Genocide Museum -Institute, one copy, as Serzh Sargsyan mentioned, will be sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and one more will be sent to Armenia’s national archives. The adoption of the Declaration was followed by discussions among the social, political, cultural and other circles, which implies that there were also criticism, in particular to the fact that the text of the Declaration is incomplete. In this regard, the first President of Armenia Levon Ter-Petrosyan expressed his view, criticizing that it is provinciality and does not represent the notion of unity of entire Armenians.
To the question of “Aravot” of whether the Armenian Genocide Declaration is a successful document or not, political analyst Sergey Shakaryants said that he does not understand the people who are criticizing a document knowing that it is remembered in Armenia with a sad expression, with wrong category of history. “We are realize that the centennial of this crime should somehow be accessible and understandable to the outside world. We understand that there should be some thing. And whether the public is unanimous or not, that’s another matter, the public may have different thoughts of why it had happened. The entire Armenian people do not doubt that there was a crime that should be condemned. To share the opinion of those saying that this or that sentence in the document was necessary or not, I do not agree, maybe an other, a more substantial document was necessary and it does not matter which direction different political and social forces are oriented. I am surprised that Turkish-people-admirers are found in our society, and I would exile such people to Turkey, those who love the Turks, let them love and go to live with the Turks. Fortunately, we have not forgotten that 60 %of Turkey is Armenia, therefore, go and live there, but do not violate the rights of other segment of the society – to hate the Turks and remember what had happened, the genocide.”
Sergey Shakaryants also thinks that no need to find explanations to justify the Turks. And the people who believe that our nation has also its share of guilt, offers to go and share everything with the Turks. “Let them share their mothers, wives and children. If Turks were good, the neighboring nations would not expel them….No need to diminish the grief of the Armenians as nation. The enemy must have its place…”
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Eva HAKOBYAN
