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YEREVAN, JUNE 4, ARMENPRESS. Vladimir Vardanyan, expert on international rights of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, highlights the fact that the German Bundestag has finally given a concrete assessment via a legal document on describing the Armenian massacres of 1915 as Genocide.
According to him, to some extent this decision was also a response to the suspicious position of the European Court of Human Rights on the Perincek case, which was questioning the occurrence of the Armenian Genocide.
“With the Bundestag’s decision rises the geography of the Armenian Genocide recognition process, which is a serious factor for carrying out the recognition process even more in the European continent”, he said.
He stressed the importance of the fact that the Bundestag resolution includes the issue of the German responsibility.
“Germany was not the country which had a concrete pro-Armenian position, and this recognition is in some extent a surprise for us. The fact that various representatives of different factions presented a united position was also a surprise, which is unprecedented, as the German Parliament is a very difficult Parliament, where various issues are being seriously discussed”, he said.