Delegation Of The European Parliament Visits Tsitsernakaberd

DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT VISITS TSITSERNAKABERD

National Assembly of RA, Armenia

Nov 2 2011

On November 1 the members of the delegation of the European Parliament
led by Milan Cabrnoch, Head of the Delegation, Co-Chair of the RA-EU
Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, visited Tsitsernakaberd and
laid flowers at the 1915 Armenian Genocide Memorial and paid tribute
to memory of more than one and a half million victims, paid silence
tribute to memory of one and a half million innocent people.

The deputies of the European Parliament took a tour in the Genocide
Museum , got acquainted with the documents ensuring the Armenian
Genocide. Milan Cabrnoch, Co-Chair of the Committee, and the Bulgarian
deputy Evgeni Kirilov left note in the Commemoration Book. In his note
Evgeni Kirilov particularly has noted: “This is one of the tragic
exciting pages of the History of the Armenian People. We hope that
it will never be repeated in the history.”

Milan Cabrnoch, Co-Chair of the RA-EU Parliamentary Cooperation
Committee, in his talk with the journalists noted:

“I am in Armenia for the first time, being in the Genocide Museum
I am very impressed and I understand that the Armenian Genocide is
one of the important pages of the History of the Armenian People. I
am rather informed on the Armenian Genocide, as I was born in former
Czechoslovakia . The knowledge of the problem is very important for
us: the deputies of the European Parliament, in order we are able to
prevent such crimes.”

Slavi Binev, member of the RA-EU Parliamentary Cooperation Committee,
member of the European Parliament-Turkey Friendship Group, representing
Bulgaria , in his word mentioned: “In the European Parliament we have
adopted two declarations on the Armenian Genocide.

I believe that we have no right to forget our past, our history;
otherwise we won’t have future”.

I believe that in future not only new countries will join the
declarations on the Armenian Genocide, but also different NGOs,
which will give a big result.”