Assembly of Armenians of Europe issued a statement to the president of Parliament of the European Union on Turkey’s longing to enter EU and refusal to recognize Armenian Genocide. The text is provided below:
His Excellency
Martin Schultz Esq.,
President – Parliament of the European Union
Your Excellency,
The Declaration you have published concerning the need for the Turkish State’s acknowledgment of the Genocide of the Armenians as such, which you have kindly raised during your meeting with the Turkish Minister Mr. Egemen Bağiş within the context of Turkey’s membership of the European union, caused an enormous satisfaction and produced a profound gratification among the Diaspora Armenians spread throughout the world, as a direct result of that very genocide back in 1915, which deprived our native nation of its historical country from time immemorial. We thank you from the depths of our hearts and minds.
We would like to emphasize and underline the fact that, by making Turkey’s Membership of the European Union contingent on Turkey’s acknowledgment of the genocide, your Excellency has, not only displayed a great respect for the universal European values, but also with your formal declaration have confirmed the overall superiority and supremacy of our continental humanitarian constructs of Democracy and Freedom intended ultimately to protect Human Rights, devastated daily in the modern but backward looking State of Turkey, longing for Ottoman domination and slavery of nations.
We expect that the pan-European socio-political structures, albeit late, but hopefully soon now, assume their historical responsibilities against the horrendous holocaust perpetrated upon our nation by the Ottoman State of Turkey, robbing it of its historical territories, to finally see justice done by their return according to The Treaty of Sèvres (10 August 1920).
We thank you yet again in the name of Assembly of the Armenians of Europe.
Very Truly Yours
Garo Hakopian Esq.,
President – the Assembly of the Armenians of Europe.
September 22, 2012
Uppsala, Sweden
