YEREVAN, APRIL 15, NOYAN TAPAN. "Everything was put to auction and sold in Armenia under Kocharian-Serzh power, and now the memory of 1.5 million victims of Armenian Genocide has been put on sale," Vardan Malkhasian, a former freedom-fighter, a member of the Consolidation of Armenian Volunteers public-political initiative, stated at the April 15 discussion. He reminded RA President Serzh Sargsyan's statement voiced several months ago that the peace established in Karabakh has a price. However, according to V. Malkhasian, for S. Sargsyan that price is neither rise of Armenian army's spirit nor the Armenian person and honorable life of Armenia's citizen: S. Sargsyan considers that the price is return of Armenian liberated lands. According to V. Malkhasian, the Armenian-Turkish "flirt" also has a price: for normalization of the relations Turkey demands from Armenia destructive concessions in the issue of Nagorno Karabakh conflict and renouncing the demand of recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The former freedom-fighter stressed that so far the RA Foreign Ministry and President's Press Office have not properly refuted Turkish President Abdullah Gul's statements that S. Sargsyan agrees to establish a commission of historians and to cede the liberated territories. According to V. Malkhasian, the Armenian leadership and Armenian people should know that now the Turks have decided to annihilate the Armenians "by loving" them.

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