Turkey knew Armenia will reject offer to form commission of historiansNovember 24, 2008 - 15:40 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Proposing to from a commission of historians, Turkey knew that it will be rejected because Yerevan doesn't question the fact of the Armenian Genocide."Ankara just wanted the international community to see that Yerevan refuses to discuss this tragedy. It was nothing but an information challenge," Hayk Demoyan, director of the Armenian Genocide museum told a news conference in Yerevan. In 2005, then-President of Armenia Robert Kocharian rejected Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's proposal to form a commission of historians to study the fact of the Armenian Genocide. "If Turkey really wanted a fair study it would not persecute historians, journalists and writers under the article 301," Demoyan said. Top stories The Cabinet of Ministers decided on Thursday, November 9 to allocated AMD 120 million to arrange the gathering. Michael Roth believes sanctions must be put on the table after Baku‘s ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh. The Yerevan City Council has elected Tigran Avniyan from the ruling Civil Contract as the mayor of the Armenian capital. The Armenian Parliament on Tuesday, October 3 voted to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. |