Armenians Of Uruguay: Armenian Genocide Not Topic For Discussion

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PanArmenian News Network
July 29 2005

ARMENIANS OF URUGUAY: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION


29.07.2005 07:45

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yesterday the Armenian community held a protest
action against Turkish Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Surku
Tufan, who initiated a meeting with the commission for foreign issues
to discuss the Armenian Genocide. The diplomat presented the
Uruguayan parliamentarians Turkey's proposal on formation of
Armenian-Turkish joint commission for the investigation of the fact
of Genocide. Members of the Uruguayan parliament Lilian Kechijian and
Jeime Trobo stated it's for the first time when a Turkish diplomat
initiated such kind of meeting. However, the position of the Armenian
people is unchangeable: the issue of the genocide of not a topic for
discussion, since it is a proven fact and there is no need in forming
any commission, Yerkir Online reports.

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Armenian Genocide Issue Raised Again By Uruguay Parliament

ArmenPress
July 28 2005

ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE RAISED AGAIN BY URUGUAY PARLIAMENT


MONTEVIDEO, JULY 28, ARMENPRESS: Turkish ambassador to Uruguay
asked for a behind the door meeting with members of an Uruguayan
parliamentary commission on foreign relations but refused to talk to
journalists afterwards. Uruguay was the first nation to officially
recognize the 1915 Armenian genocide back in 1960-s.
According to RFE/RL, members of the commission, spoke to
reporters, describing the meeting as 'very useful," and even
'historic." A member of the National Party was quoted as saying that
it was the first time when a Turkish ambassador came to parliament to
talk about the Armenian genocide. He said the meeting was focused on
a well-known letter of Turkish prime minister Recep Erdogan to his
Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian suggesting that an
international commission of historians be established to examine the
mass slaughter of Armenians in the last years of the Ottoman Empire.
He said the Turkish ambassador asked Uruguay to support the idea,
saying also his government was ready to accept the guilt if the
commission found it proven.
An Armenian member of the parliament, Lilian Kechijian, was
quoted as saying that she could support or participate in the
would-be commission's work, but as an Armenian she could not question
the fact of the genocide. She said the parliament of Uruguay is
likely to make a statement addressed to Turkish and Armenian
parliaments.
Armenian ambassador to Uruguay Ara Aivazian, who learned about
the meeting from a local Radio Armenia expressed his concerns and
asked for a similar meeting with the commission. He also asked that
Uruguay parliament to listen to the Armenian viewpoint before coming
out with a statement. The commission was said to accept his proposal.

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Uruguay Joined U.S. and EU Call to Open Armenian Border

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The parliament of Uruguay has passed a resolution today demanding that Turkey ends the blockade of Armenia and begins the process of establishing diplomatic relations with it. Turkish ambassador to Uruguay had recently asked the parliament of Uruguay to support and participate in an international commission of experts and historians that would decide whether the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Turkey constituted genocide. The parliament first agreed but later backpedaled after Armenian ambassador to Uruguay Ara Ayvazian asked for a meeting with parliament members to convey and explain the official position of Armenia which does not question the fact of the genocide. Today the parliamentarians met again to adopt the resolution. Uruguay was the first nation to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide. The resolution was hailed by an Armenian member of the parliament, Lilian Keshishian. Next week she is expected in Yerevan to attend ceremonies here celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Armenian parliament.

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Reconciliation Impossible without Armenian Genocide Recognition

Pan Armenian

Reconciliation Impossible without Armenian Genocide Recognition

04.11.2005 22:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian National Committee of South America has issued a
statement in regard with the resolution adopted by the Uruguay House of
Representatives on October 25, 2005. The statement read in parts: In regard
with the Uruguay House of Representatives October 25, 2005 resolution that
joins in with the European Union and United States calls upon Turkey to lift
the blockade of Armenia and establish diplomatic relations with Armenia, the
Armenian National Committee of South America considers it crucial to suggest
explanations that serve to maintaining the spirit of the resolution and
express the Armenian people's rightful demand for reparation. We welcome the
honesty of the Uruguay Parliament in searching the truth and reiterating the
fact of the Genocide that took the lives of 1.5 million Armenians in
1915-1923. We have to emphasize that the European Union not only demands
that Turkey lift the blockade but, since 1987, it has adopted resolutions
that condition Turkey's membership in the Union by that country's
recognition of the Genocide, Yerkir online reported.