ANCA disappointed by UN's decision
Armenian American community is profoundly disappointed over the decision to allow the Turkish government to delay - and quite possibly cancel - a United Nations exhibit intended to help ensure that the lessons of the Rwanda Genocide are used to help prevent future genocides, says the letter of ANCA (Armenian National Committee of America) Chairman Ken Hachikian addressed to Kiyotaka Akasaka, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information.
Hachikian stressed that the dismantling of the exhibit represents a troubling retreat from the founding principles of the United Nations and undermines the credibility of the United Nations on a central issue of our time - ending forever the cycle of genocide. "Rather than rightfully standing up for the organization's highest values, you permitted the immoral objections of one member state, Turkey, to drag the entire institution into complicity in that nation's shameless campaign of genocide denial," Hachikian underlined.
Hachikian stressed that the dismantling of the exhibit represents a troubling retreat from the founding principles of the United Nations and undermines the credibility of the United Nations on a central issue of our time - ending forever the cycle of genocide. "Rather than rightfully standing up for the organization's highest values, you permitted the immoral objections of one member state, Turkey, to drag the entire institution into complicity in that nation's shameless campaign of genocide denial," Hachikian underlined.
