Armenia’s preparations for the 2015 Genocide centennial look more like an obligation than serious efforts towards drawing the world’s attention to the issue, says a former journalist of the Turkish-Armenian weekly Agos.

“We have a problem in terms of being organized. We have different institutions – the Genocide Museum, the Yerevan State University and the National Academy of Sciences – which all carry out work in this direction, but there is no coordinating body. Government officials have neither a clear understanding nor policies. We have had three presidents, and all the three expressed different positions on the Genocide issue. But that isn’t the case with the Turks,” Tiran Lokmagyozyan told a news conference in Yerevan.

He stressed the importance of probing into the archives in most different states to find more evidence.

“There are foreign archives around the world, which haven’t been studied; so it is important to research them to find valuable facts. But we haven’t fully studied our national archive. A couple of books on several studies were published recently, but that’s very little,” he added,

Khachatur Marozyan, the president of the International Association of Lawyers and Psychologists, said it is now time for Armenia to appeal to international criminal courts in search of a fair settlement.

“We call for having new conceptual approaches on the table. Appealing to the states to recognize the Armenian Genocide does not offer a solution to the problem, as any country guides itself by its own interest. Any crime receives a punishment in court,” he added.

Marozyan stressed the need of turning to the international community – international genocide experts and lawyers – in the efforts towards seeking an international recognition and condemnation of the big tragedy.