Representatives of Armenian National Committee of Australia (ANC of Australia) recently met with Lebanon's Consul General in Sydney, His Excellency Mazen Kabbara, to discuss the Australian-Armenian community's anxiety and concern in regard to the participation of Turkish troops in the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.
Mr Panos Manjian, Mr Vicken Kalloghlian and Mr Varant Meguerditchian, members of the ANC of Australia handed Mr. Kabbara a letter opposing the inclusion of the Turkish forces in the UN peacekeeping mission between Lebanon and Israel.
The ANC of Australia representatives emphasised to the Consul General, that Turkey was unfit to take part in such a peace keeping mission because of its history human rights violations, as perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide, illegal occupiers of Northern Cyprus and brutal former colonisers of Lebanon.
During the colonisation of Lebanon, Turkey perpetrated massacres and mass hangings in the Martyrs Square in downtown Beirut and implemented a deliberate policy of starvation of the Christian population of Mount Lebanon.
The Lebanese ambassador was attentive to the concerns and position of ANC OF Australia and promised that he would transmit the committee's letter and the concerns of the Australian-Armenian community to the Lebanese government.
