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"en.20120418.18.3-195-000"2
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"Madam President, there is always a danger of being fixated on some evil aspect of our past. History is important, but it should not be something that stands in the way of good relations with our friends in the present.
We are in danger, when we look at our relations with Armenia, of seeing everything through the prism of the unhappy events of the First World War. They were tangled and tragic happenings. No one – not even the most blinkered Turkish nationalist – denies that many guiltless Armenians, including many civilians, were killed. Similarly, no one – not even the most vengeful Armenian diaspora reparationist – denies that some Armenians died in Russian uniforms.
But by emphasising, above all, whether we define these events as genocide, it seems to me we not only prejudice our relations with Armenia, we also poison those between Armenia and Turkey – and we do no favours to the cause of the truth.
The past should be disinterred gently and reverently, with all the patience of an archaeological dig – instead of which we are taking the shovel and we are slamming it through. The dead, I think, deserve better. They have suffered enough."@en1
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