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Re: The 100th Anniversary - and Events to Mark it
Yes! We should indeed never forget the kind of soulless, lying, excrement we are dealing with! -
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Cyprus Paves Way to Criminalizing Armenian Genocide Denial
NICOSIA, Cyprus—Cyprus lawmakers on Monday agreed to amend the language of legislation pending in the parliament, which would criminalize the denial of the genocide, stipulating that the said genocide must have been recognized by the legislature, reported the Cyprus Mail.
The matter is fundamentally about the Armenian Genocide, and resurfaced last week due to the upcoming visit to Cyprus of the speaker of the Armenian National Assembly to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
As it stands, the law states that denial of crimes against humanity and genocide is a criminal offence only where the crime in question has been recognized by irrevocable decision of an international court.
Cyprus is among 22 countries that have recognized the Armenian genocide
House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou was keen to add a clause to the legislation, making genocide denial a criminal offence whether it has been recognized by an international court or by a resolution of the Cyprus parliament.
Following debate at the House legal affairs committee on Monday, the parties took on board Omirou’s legislative proposal, but with a modification – denial of genocide will constitute a criminal offence only where the House resolution recognizing that genocide was unanimous.
Omirou had wanted the law amended before or during the visit here by Galust Sahakyan, speaker of the Armenian National Assembly.
Sources from the ruling DISY party told the Mail that the House may hold an extraordinary session of the plenum on Thursday morning, before the scheduled plenary, to pass the legal amendment.
Sahakyan, due on the island on Wednesday, is on Thursday afternoon scheduled to address the House of Representatives.
Cyprus was the first European country (and the second worldwide, after Uruguay) to officially recognise the Armenian genocide. On April 24, 1975, Resolution 36 was voted unanimously by the House of Representatives.
Given that decision was unanimous, the criminalization amendment now being proposed should automatically apply to the Armenian Genocide.
Under the law, the denial or “flagrant downgrading” of recognised war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, provided the crime has been recognised by an international court, is punishable by up to five years imprisonment and/or a fine of 10,000 euros or $ 10740.40.
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Putin’s Presence At Armenian Genocide Commemoration Reaffirmed
Satenik Kaghzvantsian եւ Gevorg Stamboltsian
Հրապարակված է՝ 30.03.2015
A senior Russian official has reaffirmed President Vladimir Putin’s decision to participate in the April 24 official ceremonies in Yerevan that will mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in Ottoman Turkey.
“We will be mourning with Armenians on that day,” Leonid xxxxsky, the pro-government chairman of a Russian State Duma state, said during a visit to Armenia. “We will be calling on the entire conscious world to mourn that pain together with us.”
“And we will be urging those who have not acknowledged and condemned that terrible crime against humanity to also do that,” added xxxxsky.
Putin’s decision to fly to Yerevan for the commemorations of the Armenian genocide centenary was announced after his March 12 phone call with President Serzh Sarkisian. The latter has also invited dozens of other world leaders to the ceremonies. French President Francois Hollande has accepted the invitation.
Russia and France are among about two dozen countries that have officially recognized the World War One-era slaughter of some 1.5 million Armenians as genocide. Successive Turkish governments have strongly criticized the recognitions, saying that Armenians died in smaller numbers and not as a result of an Ottoman government effort to exterminate them.
In what may have been an attempt to prevent Putin’s April 24 visit to the genocide memorial in the Armenian capital, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan phoned his Russian counterpart and discussed the genocide issue with him on March 17. Erdogan told Putin that the issue should be tackled from a “fair perspective.”
Apparently hoping to deflect international attention from the upcoming Armenian commemorations, Erdogan’s government has scheduled this year’s annual remembrance of a Turkish victory in a First World War battle for April 24. It has invited over 100 world leaders to the celebration.
In a weekend interview with the France 24 TV channel, Erdogan denied any ulterior motives behind that timing. “There is no connection with the events planned by Armenia. On the contrary, it’s the Armenian side that timed its events to coincide with our dates,” he charged.
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It would be easy to ignore the senile fool if he didn't still attract crowds at his nonsense rallies. In the past 8 years that he's been back, I've still yet to hear him mention a single idea of reform, of specific change in foreign or domestic policy, a single one. Literally every single time he speaks, it's just a laundry list of complaints about the conditions and the HHK, and never a mention of how the situation can be better.Originally posted by Haykakan View Post
And now it seems he has totally gone off the deep end. He is now advocating for Turkish membership in the EU
I think a lot of his recent statements is based on his resentment for the Diaspora and it's demands
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I pray he falls off the earth asap!Leave a comment:
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Our exleader/traitor speaks his mind
LEVON TER-PETROSYAN CALLS TO STOP PUTTING PRESSURE ON TURKEY OVER 'GENOCIDE'
Vestnik Kavkaza, Russia
March 26 2015
27 March 2015 - 12:16am
The first president of Armenia, leader of the 'Armenian National
Congress' Levon Ter-Petrosyan, has published his own draft of the
message of Armenia to the international community in connection
with the 100th anniversary of the tragic events of 1915. He noted
that although Armenia supports the international recognition of the
'Armenian genocide', the issue of recognition of 'genocide' should
not be the cornerstone of its foreign policy and it should not be
put in front of Turkey to recognize the genocide claim, considering
it to be an internal affair of the latter country.
"The Armenian Republic at the same time considers it necessary to
emphasize that it is not going to dictate its agenda to the Armenian
diaspora, as representatives of the Armenian people are scattered
throughout the world, as citizens, taxpayers and voters of different
countries, and have the right to put pressure on their governments
and to require them to recognize the condemnation of the Armenian
Genocide," Ter-Petrosyan said in a letter published in the newspaper
Chorrord Ishkhanutyun.
Armenia, according to Ter-Petrosyan, should appeal to European
countries, so that they do not require recognition of the 'Armenian
genocide' as a precondition for negotiations on Turkey's accession
to the EU. Armenia, according to him, should be ready to establish
diplomatic relations with Turkey on the basis of the Zurich protocols
of 2009, "with the reservation only on the advisability of establishing
a commission of Armenian and Turkish historians to study the genocide."
Ter-Petrosyan also writes: "Taking into account the interconnectedness
of some of the Armenian-Turkish relations and the Karabakh settlement,
Armenia is ready to resolve the conflict on the basis of the Madrid
principles through peaceful negotiations, and also on the condition
that prior to the implementation the schedule of the settlement, the
terms, conditions and legal consequences of the planned referendum on
the future status of Nagorno-Karabakh will be specified, as well as
issues related to the deployment of international peacekeeping forces
in the region to ensure the safety of the population of Karabakh."
The leader of the ANC expresses his willingness to listen to and take
into account suggestions, comments and remarks of all stakeholders
about the project, radio station Azatutyun reports.
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long overdue ...
a couple years back the HHK blocked a similar bill 2 years following the Turkish normalization nonsense because it might "hurt Armenian-Turkish" relations
Armenia Recognizes Greek, Assyrian Genocides
Tatevik Lazarian
Հրապարակված է՝ 24.03.2015
Armenia formally recognized the First World War-era mass killings of Assyrians and Greeks in the Ottoman Empire as genocide with a resolution unanimously passed by its parliament on Tuesday.
“The National Assembly of Armenia declares that it condemns the genocide of Greeks and Assyrians perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-1923,” reads the resolution co-sponsored by the main parliamentary factions.
The document says that the widely documented massacres conformed to the definition of genocide set by a 1948 United Nations convention. It also cites “centuries-old friendly relations between the Armenian, Greek and Assyrian peoples.”
An estimated 300,000 Assyrian subjects of the Ottoman Empire were killed or starved to death during and in the aftermath of the First World War. An even larger number of Ottoman Greeks died at the time as part of the same genocidal government policy that also left some 1.5 million Armenians dead.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars concluded in 2007 that “the Ottoman campaign against Christian minorities of the Empire between 1914 and 1923 constituted a genocide against Armenians, Assyrians, and Pontic and Anatolian Greeks.”
The Armenian parliament adopted the resolution one month before official commemorations in Yerevan of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.
“This will be our contribution to the international fight against genocides,” its ethnic Greek deputy speaker, Eduard Sharmazanov, said as he presented the text to fellow lawmakers on Monday.
Leaders of Armenia’s small Assyrian and Greek communities were invited to the parliament to witness its passage. They hailed the development.
“People in various countries with Assyrian communities have long wondered why this issue is not addressed in Armenia,” said Arsen Mikhaylov, head of the Yerevan-based Assyrian association Atur.
Eduard Polatov, who leads the Patrida union of ethnic Greeks in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, also called the official Armenian recognition overdue. Polatov said it will encourage more Greeks around the world to campaign for greater international recognition of the Armenian genocide.
Greece and Cyprus recognized the Armenian genocide in 1999 and 1975 respectively. Last year, Greece also enacted a law making it a crime to publicly deny this and other genocides.
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French President Hollande to Visit Dzidzernagapert with 120-Member Delegation
YEREVAN (Armenpress)—France will be participating in the Armenian Genocide commemorations in Armenia on April 24 with about 120 delegates, French Ambassador to Armenia Jean-François Charpentier told journalists in Yerevan, adding that the French Embassy in Armenia is currently working on organizing President François Hollande’s visit to Armenia. “Francois Hollande will be arriving in Yerevan with quite a large delegation consisting of nearly 120 delegates. There is still no information about the composition of the delegation. I can simply add that the delegation will include members of the French-Armenian community,” Charpentier said.
April 24th marks the centennial of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated by Ottoman Turkey. Several delegations from different countries will be visiting Armenia. Notably, French Presidents François Hollande and Russian President Vladimir Putin have announced their intentions to attend the commemorations.
A Swiss delegation will also visit Armenia, Switzerland’s Ambassador to Armenia Luke Gasser said. Gasser said details about the delegation will be revealed in the upcoming fortnight. “However, at this moment, I can declare that the Parliament of Switzerland will be represented by quite a large delegation at Tsitsernakaberd,” Gasser said.
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Cyprus President to Attend Armenian Genocide Centennial Commemorations
NICOSIA, Cyprus—The President of the Republic of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades will visit Armenia from April 23 to 25 to participate in events commemorating the centennial anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the press office of Vartkes Mahdessian, Member of the Cyprus House of Representatives, reports.
According to the source, “Nicos Anastasiades has accepted the official invitation of the President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sarkisian to visit Armenia from 23 to 25 April to attend the Armenian Genocide centennial commemoration events to be held in Yerevan and confirm the support of the Government of Cyprus to the Armenian people.”
Meanwhile, the political parties of the Republic of Cyprus have drafted a bill criminalizing public denial of the Armenian Genocide.
As Turkyey’s Hurriyet Daily reports, the bill jointly submitted by all the political parties represented in the Parliament of Cyprus envisages penalties for those who fail to recognize genocide, war crimes and the crimes against humanity.
It is mentioned that the bill is proposed to be passed on the occasion of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The Republic of Cyprus has recognized the Armenian Genocide. It is assumed that the Parliament of Cyprus will include the bill in the agenda this week.
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