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WHAT HE SAID AND WHAT HE WROTE<br />

sustainable case. That is why they seek legislati<strong>ve</strong> resolutions<br />

which are legally null and void.<br />

One last point: I would humbly suggest that all the references to<br />

Great Britain in the text of the resolution be dropped, for in July of<br />

this year the British Go<strong>ve</strong>rnment declared in the House of Lords<br />

that ‘in the absence of unequivocal evidence to show that the<br />

Ottoman administration took a specific decision to eliminate the<br />

Armenians, the British Go<strong>ve</strong>rnments ha<strong>ve</strong> not recognized the<br />

e<strong>ve</strong>nts of 1915-16 as genocide’.<br />

Let us not forget that Great Britain was the occupying power<br />

after the First World War and the Ottoman archi<strong>ve</strong>s were at its<br />

disposition.<br />

Thank you Mr. Chairman.<br />

280<br />

Gündüz Aktan

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