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BEFORE IT”S TOO LATE

Fellow Armenians,

As you may know, the Armenian and Turkish foreign ministries have signed a set of protocols laying the groundwork for normalizing ties between the two countries. This Protocol shows that Turkey has succeeded in enforcing clear preconditions that would compromise and fundamentally damage the national interests of Armenia and all Armenians. These preconditions have been referenced in two provisions laid out in the Protocol document:

1) “Implement a dialogue on the historical dimension….including an impartial scientific examination of the historical records and archives to define existing problems and formulate recommendations.” This essentially takes the political struggle surrounding the Armenian Genocide and reduces it to a historical controversy necessitating a “scientific examination”

2) “Confirming the mutual recognition of the existing border between the two countries as defined by relevant treaties of international law,” essentially ratifies the theft and misappropriation of Western Armenia by Turkey, relinquishing all claims to such territories that arise from the First Republic, including the arbitral award of US President Woodrow Wilson.

Armenia’s assent to such provisions signifies a retreat from our national rights and an undermining of worldwide advocacy for justice, specifically a) in seeking redress for the Genocide, and b) in combating the dispossession of the Armenian nation from its ancestral homeland Such assent thereby causes irreversible damage to our national cause based on illusory promises of friendship. The claim that an open border will facilitate greater commerce and maneuverability for Armenia remains unproven, and is hardly worth the major concessions that Turkey and its allies now seek to extract.

In addition, the status of Nagorno-Karabagh – while not explicitly part of these protocols – also hangs in the balance. Turkey has repeatedly asserted that no normalization is possible without a Karabagh settlement acceptable to Azerbaijan. Such pronouncements not only threaten Karabagh and its hard-won freedom, but reflect a lack of good faith – effectively turning bilateral negotiations into a complex game that Turkey can halt or resume whenever it chooses. Once again, Armenia has seemingly given its assent to this posturing: Its silence on these matters gives no indication otherwise.

In this environment, we call on all Armenians to immediately contact the Armenian government’s representatives in this country – the Ambassador to the United States, the Ambassador to the United Nations, and the Consul General in Los Angeles – and express our dismay and outrage that Armenia’s diplomacy could be conducted in such a reckless and dangerous manner. Without pressure from you, the Armenian grass-roots, it soon may be too late.

Please sign the e-card below to send to the Armenian Ambassador to Armenia, Ambassador Markarian, and the UN Ambassador to Armenia, Ambassador Nazarian:

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