“Sharing any authority with other country is a problem. And in this regard, if the state faces such an imperative, we need to understand at least what it may gain for that. For Russia this is a small snapshot of a greater—NATO-Russia, USA-Russia, air and terrain—conflict, and if Russia itself gets keys of the Caucasus sky due to Armenia, a question arises here: what will it give for it? Only armaments?”
During the trial the prosecutor, demanding not such a severe punishment, at the same time reminded the foreigners, that there is no need, “to settle their political issues on the French ground.” Finally, the court sentenced Ter-Zakarian for one year in prison and obliged the dissatisfied party to pay one franc, as compensation.
The pope first used the genocide label last year in a ceremony at the Vatican and Turkey angrily responded by recalling its ambassador to the Vatican for 10 months. The pope, who delighted his hosts by referring several times to the slaughters and visiting Yerevan’s genocide memorial, has urged Armenia and Turkey to seek reconciliation.
