YEREVAN. – The genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in their homeland is nothing but a vivid display of a crime against humanity. The forgetting of the crimes committed against the human society bears new crimes.     

Armenian National Assembly (NA) Deputy Speaker Eduard Sharmazanov stated the aforesaid commenting on Turkey President Abdullah Gul’s recent statement. 

During his talk with his French counterpart François Hollande on Monday in Ankara, Gul had called upon Armenia and the Armenian diaspora to “leave the pains of the past behind and not pass them on from children to children.” 

In Sharmazanov’s conviction, the delicate problems of the past should not be forgotten, but rather be resolved.  

“I think the Turkish authorities should take measures to reconcile with their past and they must recognize the Armenian Genocide, so as not to leave the heavy burden on the future generations.

“Otherwise, by implementing a policy of denial, they will commit no less a crime than the Young Turk government,” the NA vice-chair stated.