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One Hundred Questions, One Hundred Answers

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You can ask your questions to the former U.S. Ambassador to Armenia John Marshall Evans.

Կարող եք Ձեր հարցերն ուղղել Հայաստանում ԱՄՆ նախկին դեսպան, Ջոն Մարշալ Էվանսին:

 

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0 #10 David Darian 2011-10-25 09:24
Dear Ambassador Evans, if we American Armenians can't even get our own Govt. To recognize the Genocide with eye-witness accounts from our own consulate officials and Europeans who were there at the time, how could we possibly believe that Turkey would do this on its own without being compelled to do so? 100 years of scholarship and documentation, recent apologies to the Armenians from a major Kurdish political party in Turkey for their part as "death squads" during the Genocide (eyewitnesses to the crime) and thousands of remains still buried in the Syrian desert (forensic evidence) and we're still waiting for justice and recognition? Why shouldn't both parties take their charges and evidence to the Int. Criminal Court and allow skilled (and unbiased) judges to resolve this issue as well as the dispute with the Azeris?
Why attempt to resolve it Diplomatically between two intransigent parties when it is simply a criminal matter of mass-murder? Thank you-David
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+1 #9 Urban 2011-09-29 10:17
Mr. Evans, the negotiations on the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict facilitated by the Minsk group have been described by several analysts as a power struggle between Russia and USA in the background. How do you comment on this? Also, da you think USA should play a more active role in the settlement of the conflict?
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0 #8 khosrov 2011-09-29 07:49
Mr. Evans has anyone in the media asked you whether you are in fact here to help Mr. Kocharyan in his campaign?
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0 #7 Arminejournalist 2011-09-28 15:01
Mr Evans, at the recent Tedx event, you talked about honesty in diplomacy. Because you were honest, and gave the right name for the things, calling Armenian Genocide of 1915 Genocide, you were resigned from your position as an ambassador. Do you want to say that those who "survive" in politics are the less honest ones? Obama? or Armenian government representatives ?
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0 #6 Karen Baghdasaryan 2011-09-28 14:41
Mr. Evans, recently Ambassador of Germany in Armenia questioned the legitimacy of elections during 1994-1997. What is your opinion on matters happened during that period. I mean elections of president and parliament, arresting of members of a political party and closing some media.
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0 #5 Carolin 2011-09-28 14:36
Mr. Evans, when I listen to general news of the states, I am noticing that even America has lots of political corruption going on! In your opinion, don't you think there is the same level of corruption in all countries, except since one country is on a larger scale it is not as noticeable and I should say easily hid as the smaller scaled countries?
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0 #4 Hrant Gadarigian 2011-09-28 11:58
Mr Evans, In a 2007 letter to the NYT you wrote that the assassination of Hrant Dink strikes a heavy blow against all those who strive for proper acknowledgment of the 1915 Armenian genocde." What, in your estimation, is the primary stumbling block preventing official Ankara from going down that road? Is it domestic opposition or a fear of opening a pandora's box in terms of reparations?
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0 #3 Hrant Gadarigian 2011-09-28 11:51
Mr Evans, In a 2007 LATimes interview with Matt Wech you said, "Turkey is a hugely important U.S. ally, and little landlocked Armenia, population 3 million at best, is never going weigh in those scales in such a way as to even make a showing." Has the landscape changed since then? Are the periodic disagreements between Ankara and Washington just that - superficial jockeying for political position with the decades old alliance still strong at the core?
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0 #2 Hrant Gadarigian 2011-09-28 11:41
If we agree that when it comes to Turkish foreign policy normalising relations with Armenia is way down on Ankara's list of priorities (given its simmering row with Israel and push to extend its influence in the post-revolutionary Arab world, why then have the Protocols been put back on the Turkish parliaments agenda? Is this a convenient ploy engineered by Turkey in the run up to 2015, the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide?
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+1 #1 Anto 2011-09-28 10:37
Mr. Ambassador, on the scale of 1 to 10, how democratic is the current government of Armenia (1 is the least democratic, 10 is the most democratic)? Thank you.
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