Recognition of Armenian Genocide is entering a new stage

The process of international recognition of the Armenian Genocide is entering a new stage of discussions, related to the issue of responsibility and compensations, told journalists deputy director of the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide Suren Manukyan.

“Today’s situation is radically different from previous stages. Its main difference is that during the last years we were stimulating the processes of recognition of the genocide; these processes were some kind of preparatory stages, aimed at informing the world communities and organisations about the 1915 Genocide against Armenians,” he said adding that today the issue of the 1915 Genocide is a undisputed fact in the world.

“The world recognizes the 1915 Genocide and is ready to acknowledge that the committed crimes must have its consequences. Today both in Armenia and beyond it everything possible has already been done. Documents and surveys are enough to provide a basis for neither single doubt on the issue of Genocide. And the nations which haven’t yet recognized the Genocide are taking this step due to political considerations,” he said.

“We are on the stage when we haven’t got problems with recognition, and we are moving towards the second stage – we are solving issues of responsibility and compensations,” he said adding that relations between Germany and Israel can be accepted as a model in this sense.