Swedish and other Sources

[Joseph]

No, the "recognition" in 2000 was a report recommended in the Foreign Committee which said yes to the motion calling upon Sweden for recognition. The Parliament has never recognised it officially. Furthermore, in 2001, when they added Assyrian/Syrians and Pontic Greeks to the same recognition, the answer became "no". And they even managed to almost annul the recognition from 2000 due to "errors" in the informattion in regard to "UN having recognised the genocide in 1985".

It just shows that they absolutely don't know what they vote upon and only follow directives from Foreign Department and their Party leadership. The Christian Democrats, Liberals and (may be worst of all) Social Democrats actually said no to recognition of a genocide says it all... It is not about facts, it's about politics, profits and economics. As if to say: More Darfurs, please. We genuinly don't give a damn.

They really don't care do they? They are of the mindset that they would choose not anger a Muslim nation than try to stop them from committing genocide. This is how Sudanese Christian and Animists were able to be massacred for years before the Europeans even said anything much less lifted a finger. The EU is one big Neville Chamberlin. I have some hope in Sarkozy but even he won't be able to change the ineptitude of the EU with regards to justice and human rights.

[armenica.org]

They really don't care do they? They are of the mindset that they would choose not anger a Muslim nation than try to stop them from committing genocide. This is how Sudanese Christian and Animists were able to be massacred for years before the Europeans even said anything much less lifted a finger. The EU is one big Neville Chamberlin. I have some hope in Sarkozy but even he won't be able to change the ineptitude of the EU with regards to justice and human rights.

Well, I don't look at it from a "Christian vs. Muslim" perspective, since I don't think that it matters at all. Keeping Turkey back in the darkness by refusing them entry into EU is not the right answer either. Armenia will always have Turkey as neighbor and since we can't just move in order to get rid of a troublesome neighbor, than one must work for reforming the neighbor. If that is done by EU pressure, then we have to work for a more firm and correct guidance from EU. The politicians might be short sighted, but they must have a screw or two loose if they think this Turkey won't mean a meltdown in EU once they enter the union without any improvements.

[armenica.org]

The paper is now available at http://www.armenica.org/material