ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MARKED IN MONTEVIDEO
ARKA News Agency, Armenia
April 26 2006
Yerevan, April 26. /ARKA/. An arrangement marking the 91st anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide was held in Armenia Square, Montevideo,
Uruguay, on April 24, 2006.
The participants laid wreaths to the memorial “Armenian Genocide”.
Participating in the arrangement were Speaker of the country’s
Parliament Walter Kordeson, Minister of Territorial Administration
Mariano Aravan, and the Parliament member Lilian Keshishyan,
representatives of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholic Church,
Evangelical Church, intellectuals and journalists.
Uruguay was the first country to recognize the Armenian Genocide in
1965.
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