July 29, 2005 - 12:45 AMT
ARMENIANS OF URUGUAY: ARMENIAN GENOCIDE NOT TOPIC FOR DISCUSSION
Yesterday the Armenian community held a protest action against Turkish Ambassador to Argentina and Uruguay Surku Tufan, who initiated a meeting with the commission for foreign issues to discuss the Armenian Genocide. The diplomat presented the Uruguayan parliamentarians Turkey's proposal on formation of Armenian-Turkish joint commission for the investigation of the fact of Genocide. Members of the Uruguayan parliament Lilian Kechijian and Jeime Trobo stated it's for the first time when a Turkish diplomat initiated such kind of meeting. However, the position of the Armenian people is unchangeable: the issue of the genocide of not a topic for discussion, since it is a proven fact and there is no need in forming any commission, Yerkir Online reports.