CCAF: The Armenian Genocide is not negotiable

PanARMENIAN.Net - On August 31, Armenia and Turkey under the mediation of Switzerland promulgated two protocols on the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Yerevan and Ankara have a period of six weeks before giving their final approval and then the documents will be ratified by their parliaments. In this context the CCAF wishes to clarify its position on major issues.



The Armenian Genocide is not negotiable and it could not be examined by a sub-intergovernmental commission, Jean Eckian independent French journalist reported to PanARMENIAN.Net



History is already written, no one can deny this fact acknowledged as Genocide by historians, lawyers, international institutions, and over 20 states, including France.



Moreover, genocide results in any moral, political and material compensation. The CCAF is therefore requesting clarification on the 5th paragraph of the Protocol on establishing diplomatic relations that the two countries, "affirm their mutual recognition of their existing border as defined by relevant treaties in international law".



If the conflict of Nagorno-Karabakh is not quite rightly mentioned in the "roadmap", its publication will coincide, once in force, with the Armenian-Azerbaijani meeting scheduled in mid-October in Moldova. In this context, the point 3 of the Protocol should also be clarified.



The right to self-determination, the right to participate in the political settlement of the conflict, ensured security, live peacefully on their land directly should be clearly recognized to the Republic of NK" connected to the Republic of Armenia.



We, French citizens of Armenian descent, have the right to expect from the Turkish government an act in accordance with the courage of the Turkish civil society that handles the question of the Armenian genocide with responsibility. For the Armenian taboo to disappear irreversibly in Turkey, we ask Ankara to stop its state denial and to abrogate as soon as possible its repressive arsenal - 301 and 305 articles of the penal code - that threatens anyone who would offend the dignity of Turkey by evoking publicly the genocide of the Armenians. It is the Turkish government's responsibility to adapt to the message of its civil society willing to revisit its past and walk in the direction of history.



Finally, the CCAF reaffirms its attachment to the Armenia-Diaspora strategic partnership and calls on all the components of the Armenian nation to reinforce it.