YEREVAN, APRIL 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The Ramkavar-Azatakan Party of Armenia (RAPA) has always stated that the current Turkish government is the continuer of the 1915 genocide, RAPA Chairman Haroutiun Arakelian said in his interview to the Ararat Strategic Center. He said that in general genocides consist of three parts. The first, according to the RAPA Chairman, is preparation, the second carrying out, and the third is cleaning the traces for the crime not to be disclosed. According to the RAPA Chairman, a film about the slaughters allegedly organized by the Armenians was shown at Turkey's schools on the initiative of Turkey's Ministry of Education, which is evidence that the Turks are cleaning the traces of the crime committed by their forefathers. H. Arakelian also touched upon Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's statement, according to which Turkey's and Azerbaijan's positions on the Nagorno Karabakh problem completely coincide. In response to the question of whether after that statement Armenia should continue its policy of rapprochement with Turkey the RAPA Chairman said that there is no need to reconsider that policy. In his words, relations between Armenia and Turkey should be good-neighborly, but simultaneously Armenia should formulate its claim on the Armenian Genocide to be introduced to the European Court. According to H. Arakelian, as the two neighboring states have chosen European integration as their political course, they should find in Europe answers to the questions they are concerned with. In response to the question of how he assesses RA Prime Minister's invitation to Turkey to take part in the construction of a new newclear power plant in Armenia H. Arakelian said that he considers it a "statement of a person, who is politically incompetent." In his words, we should not yield to the financial factor irrespective of the fact who gives that finance.

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