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The
Bay Area
Armenian National
Committee (ANC-SF) is a grassroots public affairs organization serving to
inform, educate, and act on a wide range of issues concerning Armenian Americans
throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Belgium -
Senate
Resolution 1-736/3
March 26, 1998
Whereas there are numerous studies dedicated
to the situation of the Armenian population
in Turkey at the beginning of the 20th
century; Whereas the UN convention on the
prevention and punishment of genocide,
provides a definition of the concept of
genocide;
Whereas the judicial verdicts have applied
this term to describe the state of Armenians
living in Turkey in 1915, more specifically,
the verdict of the 'tribunal de grande
instance' in Paris on 21 June 1995;
Whereas the resolution by the European
Parliament on 18 June 1987 concerning a
"political solution to the Armenian
Question," recognized that the Armenians
living in Turkey in 1915 were the victims of
a genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman
government of the time;
Whereas there cannot be the slightest doubt
over the historical evidence regarding the
organized and systematic murder of the
Armenians;
Whereas the recognition of mistakes and
crimes of the past is a precondition for
reconciliation between peoples and that
there cannot be peace without justice,
either in Armenia or elsewhere;
Whereas only through the recognition of
crimes committed by previous regimes is it
possible to distance oneself from their aims
and strive politically for reconciliation;
Whereas the differences between the Turkish
and Armenian nations continue to drag on and
even today lead to the loss of human lives,
to the eviction of ethnic groups and to
numerous violations of human rights in that
region;
Whereas the Turkish and Armenian peoples
have no choice but to co-exist peacefully in
the long term;
Whereas there exist friendly ties and
cooperation between, on the one hand,
Turkey, Belgium, and the European Union and,
on the other hand, Armenia, Belgium and the
European Union;
Whereas the 1987 resolution by the European
Parliament has not led the Turkish
government to recognize the historic reality
of the 1915 genocide;
Be it resolved that the Senate request the
Turkish government to recognize the
historical reality of the Genocide committed
in 1915 by the last government of the
Ottoman Empire;
Be it further resolved that the Senate
request the parliaments of the member-states
of the European Union to contribute to the
reconciliation between the Turkish and
Armenian peoples;
Be it further resolved that the Senate
request the European Union and its
member-states to lend their support to
initiatives in all domains aimed at
promoting a dialogue between the Armenian
and Turkish peoples;
Be it further resolved that the Senate ask
the government of Belgium to transmit this
resolution to the prime minister of the
Turkish government, to the chairman of the
European parliament, to the chairman of the
European Commission, to the chairmen of the
parliaments of the member-states of the
European Union, as well as to the chairman
of the parliament of the Republic of
Armenia. |
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