Armenian President Responds to Hillary Clinton’s Statements?

We don’t accept the style of references to the Armenian-Turkish dialogue in attempts to avoid recognizing the Armenian Genocide, said Armenian President Serzh Sargysan in Deir ez-Zor, while on a three-day official visit to Syria.

“I don’t think it helps the process. Moreover, it is irrelevant to cite some Commission of Historians, since the Armenian-Turkish protocols provide for merely a governmental sub-commission on historic dimension. I assume everyone understands what it means and what the difference is.

I ask all those who will have an occasion to elaborate or express themselves on the topic of the recognition of the Armenian Genocide: remember of this dessert, millions of ruined human fortunes and this ancient people deprived of their motherland and with pain in their hearts, before you make up your minds,” reads a press release of Sargsyan’s Deir ez-Zor statement issued by the RA presidential office.

Yesterday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with Vladimir Pozner of Russia’s Channel One, and responding to a question by a viewer, said that neither she nor President Barack Obama had forgotten their pledge of support to recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Clinton referred to the Armenia-Turkey rapprochement and the process of normalizing relations outlined in the Armenia-Turkey Protocols.

“And in those protocols, there was an agreement between the two countries to establish a historical commission that would look at all of the issues that are part of the past,” she said.