Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Sarkisian: No Reconciliation Without Recognition

YEREVAN—”There can be no reconciliation without genocide recognition. Those who are trying to present attempts to establish relations with Turkey as reconciliation efforts are mistaken. Real reconciliation can be achieved only after repentance,” said President Serge Sarkisian this week, when speaking to Russian media.

Serge Sarkisian
In response to whether real economic growth could take place in Armenia without normalizing relations with Turkey, Sarkisian said that Armenia would not die of starvation, adding that for the past two decades it has in fact managed to grow.
Economic growth is not the motivating factor for normalizing relations, he said, but the geography that has been fated to Armenia.
“The fact of the Armenian Genocide is indisputable and we must spare no effort for Turkey to finally recognize the genocide,” he said, according to News.am. “It is a struggle for justice and for security. It is eventually a struggle for the inadmissibility of such crimes not only in our region, but throughout the world

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