Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm very grateful.
Allow me to start off by thanking all the witnesses.
If I could pick up where Mr. Genuis left off, Ms. Salehi, I listened to your testimony very closely and I have to say I'm quite disturbed by the legal interpretation that you adhere to. From what I heard, you stated that genocide can only occur prospectively, after the concept was crystalized or after the genocide convention was adopted in 1948. I have never in my life come across any scholar who has held to such a definition.
Why would you state that? You are saying that genocide did not take place by the Nazis or genocide did not take place against Armenians. That's a very disturbing interpretation that is not supported by any academic research.
Please respond to that.