LECH WALESA: "IF WE FORGET ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS, GOD WILL TURN AWAY FROM US"

PanARMENIAN.Net - "If we consign victims of the Armenian Genocide to oblivion, the God will turn away from us," former President of Poland Lech Walesa stated at an international conference on the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in Yerevan today. In his words, within the past 17 centuries Armenia was independent for only 300 years and in early 20-th century it tried to throw off the Ottoman yoke, however the Young Turk Government decided the Armenian issue via deportation and massacre of the Armenian people. It was the first genocide of the 20-th century, L. Walesa stated, adding the West limited itself to urging the Turkish authorities and did not try to prevent the Armenian Genocide. "Today's Turkish authorities aggressively refuse to acknowledge the crime committed by their ancestors, while Europe has denounced that crime twice (in 1987 and 2000) and qualified it a Genocide," the former Polish President noted. To solve the current world integration problems at present Mr. Walesa pointed out the need to use the most efficient tool of the globalization - the dialogue between nations, cultures and civilizations.