Thursday, June 18 2020 12:16

ArmInfo. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman  of Armenia Anna Naghdalyan made a statement on the agenda of the meeting of the Turkish High Advisory Council.

Thus, as the pres service of  RA MFA reports,  Naghdalyan's message,  in particular,  notes: <The statements made by the Turkish President  on justifying the Armenian Genocide and insulting its victims are not  a novelty and are manifestations of hate speech, which have an impact  on maintaining and strengthening the atmosphere of xenophobia against  Armenians in that country.

The recognition and condemnation of the Armenian Genocide is not an  Armenian-Turkish issue, but an issue between Turkey and the  international community. Numerous statements and actions of Turkey  addressed to and undertaken towards countries recognizing the  Armenian Genocide are a point in case.

For us and the international community the Armenian Genocide is a  reality which served as a basis for elaboration of 1948 Convention on  the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and for the  installment of mechanisms for the prevention of genocides and crimes  against humanity.

Denialism has no future, no matter who and how frames it. Despite the  efforts of the authorities of Turkey to suppress the truth, the truth  has been prevailing>.

As ArmInfo previously reported, a meeting of the Supreme Advisory  Council was held in the presidential complex in Ankara, chaired by  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

"The meeting participants discussed "the actions to be taken against  groundless allegations against Turkey regarding the 1915 events," the  head of the Office of Public Relations of the Presidential  Administration of Turkey Fahrettin Altun said at the end of the  event. According to him, the Higher Advisory Council focused on the  development of steps that would impede the use by various circles for  events allegedly based on "lies and slander of political goals" that  took place in a period full of difficulties and suffering for all  citizens of the Ottoman Empire.

"At the meeting, steps were discussed to counteract the propaganda  based on baseless speculation, carried out by the Armenian lobby,  using the events of 1915 as a political tool to denigrate Turkey and  its people, as well as by states exploiting this issue on the basis  of their political calculations. Also discussed aimed at conveying to  the national and international public the historical and legal  aspects of this issue, "he said, without even mentioning 1.5 million  dead Armenians in that period. Altun noted that during the meeting,  President Erdogan emphasized the futility of attempts to "sow the  seeds of hostility by distorting historical events."