CANBERRA: The Armenian National Committee of Australia
(ANC Australia) has welcomed the election of Malcolm Turnbull as the new Prime
Minister of Australia. Turnbull challenged sitting Prime Minister, Tony Abbott,
for their party's (LIB) leadership in a spill that took place on Monday night
in Parliament House.
By winning the Liberal Party leadership, Turnbull
immediately became Prime Minister-elect, and will be sworn in on Tuesday. Turnbull,
a long time friend of the Armenian-Australian community, has been a strong and
vocal supporter of Armenian Genocide recognition by the Parliament of
Australia. On 23 November 2013, in this capacity as Shadow Minister for
Communications and Broadband, he addressed the House of Representatives in an
impassioned speech calling for the formal recognition of the Armenian, Greek
and Assyrian genocides
(click here for
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqbclr9sWZ8&feature=youtu.be
)
“They [ANC Australia Advocacy Week delegation] are
assembled here, as we are, to lament what was one of the great crimes against
humanity, not simply a crime against the Greeks, the Assyrians and the
Armenians but a crime against humanity—the elimination, the execution, the
murder of hundreds of thousands of millions of people for no reason other than
that they were different. This type of crime, this sort of genocidal crime, is
something that sadly is not unique in our experience,” Turnbull said.
He added: "We must own up to it. We must recognise
it for what it is."
He also called on the Republic of Turkey to acknowledge
the genocidal crimes of their predecessors, the Ottoman Empire, to pave the way
for reconciliation into the future, and live up to their multicultural past.
Executive Director of the Armenian National Committee of
Australia, Vache Kahramanian, wrote to the Prime Minister-elect congratulating
him on his election as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister.
“We welcome the election of Malcolm Turnbull as Prime
Minister of Australia. His strong track record on Armenian related issues has
been formidable and we look forward to continuing this strong relationship,”
Kahramanian said.
"We also congratulate Tony Abbott on his service as
Prime Minister Australia."
ANC Australia has sought a meeting with the newly elected
Prime Minister to discuss a wide range of issues important to the
Armenian-Australian community.
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