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“Hraparak” comments on the latest European Parliament resolution calling on Turkey to recognize the Armenian genocide and unconditionally normalize with Armenia. The paper says that Ankara is paying the price for its failure to ratify the 2009 Turkish-Armenian protocols that prompted strong protests from Azerbaijan. “[Recep Tayyip] Erdogan hardly expected this slap,” it says.

“Hayots Ashkhar” notes that the European Parliament resolution came less than a week after the “historic” Mass on the centenary of the Armenian genocide which was held by Prope Francis at the Vatican. The paper also points to genocide resolutions approved this week by lawmakers in the Czech Republic and Chile. “This shows that the Armenian ‘tsunami’ is nearing its climax,” it says. “Nowadays the issue of Armenian genocide recognition is connected with not only the 100th anniversary of that tragedy but also the overall logic of developments in our region. In that context, the genocide issue is the West’s most potent weapon to pressure Turkey.”

“Zhamanak” cautions, meanwhile, that there is no unity on the question of genocide recognition among EU member states. The most important of them, Germany, remains reluctant to term the 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide. “From that standpoint, recognition by Germany or Britain would mean much more than the recognition at the broader European level does,” writes the paper. The European Parliament resolution was less significant than even than the statement by Pope Francis, it says. Having said, the paper goes on, the EU is “not a secondary structure” and its resolution is a “fairly valuable document.”

“Chorrord Ishkhanutyun” believes that the genocide-related developments “do not have much to do with Armenia.” “All this has more to do with the Armenian people, history, morality, and the world’s attitudes towards Turkey,” says the paper. “Armenia is at the center of events. But they are happening on a sort of virtual plane and have no connection with the real world, real interstate relations and real problems requiring real solutions.”

“Haykakan Zhamanak” reports that the Armenian government is still in no rush to revise its economic growth targets after the International Monetary Fund forecast that the Armenian economy will contract by 1 percent this year. The paper says the government’s silence means that it is “totally detached from reality” and “has no idea what steps are needed in this situation.”

(Tigran Avetisian)

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