Like other countries aspiring for accession to the EU, Turkey should have all preconditions for that, noted Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance in the FRG Foreign Ministry, Co-Chair of Union/90 Green faction of the German Bundestag Claudia Roth. In her words, the Armenian issue is a rather important one and the investigation of one's own history should issue from the interests of Turkey itself. «The events of 1915 are undoubted a crime against humanity,» Claudia Roth noted. «We Germans have a historical responsibility for the Holocaust and we know how important it is to remember about it,» she noted. She hoped for Turkey nevertheless to be «able to cancel the taboo and deal with the problem of relations with Armenia.» She also reminded Germans are concerned with the events of 1915. The military and political leaders of the German Empire were informed of the occurrences in Anatolia, however it did not intervene. She also said she was sure a joint Armenian-Turkish Commission to investigate facts of the Armenian Genocide should be formed, however in her words the Commission should be indeed independent. «Germany's role in the question comes to promoting reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia,» Roth stated.