Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel Urged To Consider The Armenian Genocide Not From The Political But From The Historical Point Of View

Mediamax Dec 19 2011 Armenia

Yerevan/Mediamax/. Former President of Czech Republic Vaclav Havel, who passed away on December 18, urged to consider the problem of the Armenian Genocide from the historical point of view.

Vaclav Havel died aged 76 after a long illness on December 18.

In December 2005, then Czech President Vaclav Havel said that the "problem of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire should be considered not from the political but from the historical point of view."

In his written answer to the question of Armenian "Orer" Magazine published in Prague, Vaclav Havel expressed the opinion that all interested parties should be ready for a historical assessment of events by experts. "Although the process of acknowledgement and assessment of its own past is often too painful, it is necessary in order to preserve the moral unity of the nation," Vaclav Havel used to say.

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