Levon Shirinyan: Presidency of Turkey at PACE cannot bring to serious changes

YEREVAN, JANUARY 26, ARMENPRESS: The presidency of Turkey at the PACE cannot bring to serious changes, for the European Parliament has adapted a decision in 1987 on “Political Solution of the Armenian Issue”, which says that a political solution must be given to the Armenian issue, political specialist Levon Shirinyan told today Armenpress, adding that the Turkish policy has adopted a strategy, which suggests 3 rounds.

“First they committed the Armenian Genocide, and then punished some individuals trying to put that blame not on the Turkish state, but on several persons. The third step of the Turks is that they deny the fact of the Armenian Genocide in different instances, conducting a policy of denial,” the political specialist said. To remind, the first PACE plenary session of 2011 is running in Strasburg, where the Turkish President and the Foreign Minister have already delivered speeches referring to the issue of relations with Armenia. Referring to establishment of a subcommittee on NK issue at the PACE, the political specialist expressed concern that it is possible to take place.

“The oil factor of Iran may play its role, but we must not be afraid of establishment of that subcommittee,” he noted. Before leaving for Strasburg, Chairperson of the NA Standing Committee on European Integration Issues, member of Prosperous Armenia Party and Armenian delegation at the PACE Naira Zohrabyan had told Armenpress that the issues to be discussed at the session do not concern Armenia, but there are numerous reports, in the context of which issues of great significance for Armenia can be raised.