Giovanni Guaita: I Would Insist On The Return Of Mountain Ararat

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If by they, you mean Turkey, then push for international recognition.

But if by they, you mean the world community, then what can be done?

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The above things will happen when pigs can fly.

You obviously are not up on the latest techniques in genetic engineering

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You obviously are not up on the latest techniques in genetic engineering

When they start genetically engineering turks into humans, be sure to let us know.

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Horrifying Photos In Moscow

Armenian and Russian intellectuals and renowned clergymen were present at the opening ceremony of a photo exhibition at Halabian Hall of the Ararat Park Hyatt hotel in Moscow dedicated to the Armenian Genocide. The presentation of "Four Years Under the Crescent", book by Venezuelan writer Rafael de Nogales Mendes, also took place that very day. The eyewitness of the Genocide tells about this great tragedy with compassion.

His Holiness Ezras Nersisian, head of the Armenian diocese of New Nakhijevan and Russia, made an impressive opening speech. After a historic survey into Turkey’s past, he said that Turkey’s denial of the Genocide demands great efforts from us to make the world aware. And the exhibition is one of such steps.

"I am not Armenia, I have no Armenian blood," Italian historian Giovanni Guaitai said in excellent Russian, "but I try to be impartial while examining the events of 1915. The idea that the Genocide is an Armenian-Turkish issue is intolerable. No. It is an issue of the civilized mankind." He said he is currently working on a new book – memories of an Arabian official who, being a Moslem, managed to remain impartial to the extent of questioning Islamic morality. The opinions of foreigners are more powerful, the Italian historian underscored.

Historian and political scientist Natalia Norochinskaya, chairman of Foreign Relations Committee at the State Duma, made a pithy and impressive speech. Firstly she noted that she was brought up in a spirit of love to the Armenian nation (her father was a historian and was in friendly relations with many of his Armenian colleagues). Secondly, she used the Armenian genocide to portrait the present-day Christian-Moslem confrontation in Russia, which is not in favor of the former. While talking with deputies of the European parliament or "liberal" Western thinkers in general, one faces stiffened ideas and way of thinking: they do not know history and do not want to know and tend to fragmentize it. As a result we have injustice towards Christian Serbs and establishment of another Moslem state in troubled Balkans.

Norochinskaya thinks that the West, taking advantage of Russia’s weakness, implements the disastrous policy for the Christian world in the South Caucasus. Thus, the lesson of the Armenian Genocide should awaken the Western thought.

http://www.azg.am/?lang=EN&num=2006042704

By Ruben Hayrapetian in Moscow