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During the Apr. 11–15 PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) spring session, Heritage Party MP and member of Armenia’s delegation to PACE, Zaruhi Postanjyan, meeting with journalists today, said she asked Turkey’s foreign affairs minister Ahmed Davutoglu what steps the Turkish government is taking in recognizing the Armenian Genocide.
“The statement you make here today is simply a one-sided accusation; you do not know international law. If you like, we can debate with each other; this is a discussion of historical issues, and we recommend that discussions are not held on such platforms, but examined in a commission of historians,” said Davutoglu, according to Postanjyan. The Armenian MP compared this response to the response provided by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.
“In 2007, when Serzh Sargsyan was prime minister, I asked him, ‘Don’t you think that by violating this article of the Electoral Code, you cannot be an elected president and you are already violating the Electoral Code?’ He responded, ‘You have to take literacy classes [implying that Postanjyan is ignorant], and it would be good if you contacted [then justice minister] David Harutyunyan’,” she said.