YEREVAN, APRIL 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The International Association of Genocideologists in the person of its head Greg Stempson sent a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama the other day calling him for recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Hayk Demoyan, the Director of the Museum-Institute of Armenian Genocide, reported at the April 6 press conference. According to him, that letter is of much importance, as the above mentioned Association is an authoritative academic organization consisting of nearly 500 genocideologists. In response to the question of whether the U.S. President will pronounce the word "genocide" in his annual April 24 address H. Demoyan said that up to the present, as long as B. Obama is in Turkey, the American administration has not determined the address content yet. However, according to the Museum Director, only the fact that the superpower's head touches upon the 1915 events on every April 24 is already a positive phenomenon. "And there is one more important circumstance: a person arrived in Turkey on the post of the U.S. President, who in the past both in the written form and orally recognized the genocide," H. Demoyan stressed. Touching upon the rumors on establishing an Armenian-Turkish commission of historians, he said that we should make the Turks understand that establishment of such a commission will only damage their interests. Besides, according to H. Demoyan, it will be good for Turkey if the discussions on the genocide are moved from the Armenian-Turkish plane to purely Turkish plane: if Turkish denialists and intellectuals admitting the fact of genocide argued with each other.

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