Ter-Petrosyan: Diaspora Should Draft Its Own Genocide Agenda; Recognition Not a Cornerstone of Armenia's Foreign Policy

15:59, March 24, 2015

Armenia's first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan has issued his version of what Armenia's official proclamation should be on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide.

Readers will recount that Ter-Petrosyan blasted the Pan-Armenian Proclamation drafted by Armenia's State Commemorative Organizing Committee last month as faulty and not in the best interests of Armenia.

In his draft proclamation published today in the Chorrord Ishkhanutyun newspaper, Ter-Petrosyan states that while Armenia should work to the international recognition of the Armenian Genocide (a policy enshrined in Armenia's August 23, 1990 Declaration of Independence), such recognition should not become a cornerstone of Armenia's foreign policy.  Read more... (485 words)

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