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Professor calls on US to acknowledge Armenian genocide
The Armenian National Committee on Sunday honored in Thessaloniki the 1,500,000 Armenians killed by the Turks in the genocide of 1915, while political sciences professor at the US Indiana-Purdue University Vangelis Coufoudakis called on US President George W. Bush to keep his election promise and have April 24 declared Armenian Genocide Day. In his address on "The Armenian genocide and American foreign policy", he said the genocide of the Armenians influenced American public opinion, but 86 years later the US, following the policy of "equal distances", use such expressions as "so-called genocide" or "allegations" of genocide when referring to the 1915 tragedy.
National Defense Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos stressed in his message of
greetings that recognizing the genocide "is not an action of hatred and
should not be considered as raising walls between peoples. On the
contrary, they build bridges of friendship and cooperation with peoples
with the criterion of historical truth and build walls against policies
causing genocides."
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