"ASALA IS NOT A TERRORIST STRUCTURE" HISTORIAN VLADIMIR PETROSIAN IS SURE

YEREVAN, AUGUST 8, NOYAN TAPAN. "I came to the conviction that there is no international terrorism: who did not like a national-liberation movement, he called it "terrorism." Vladimir Petrosian, Doctor of History, Professor made such a statement at the August 7 presentation of his "Let's not Forget..."

("Chmoranank...") book. According to him, "the main author and organizer of terrorism is the United States of America which, to mask their own terrorism, ascribe it to others just at the beginning." According to V.Petrosian, when writing the "Let's not Forget" book, he made an attempt to find out if the Armenian Secret Army, ASALA (Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia), is a terrorist organization. Studying the ASALA activity of the last three years, the author came to conviction that one may not qualify this organization as a terrorist structure as the Armenian Secret Army was created based on patriotic ideology and led a national-liberating struggle. Even more, according to V.Petrosian, the ASALA ideology may be put in the basis of today's state foreign policy.