RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SAYS GENOCIDE RECOGNITION IS INEVITABLE
Panorama.am
13:31 24/04/2012 ” Politics
“I think that the recognition of the genocide is inevitable; if
the humanity wants to be safe efforts should be made to get legal
recognition of the crime and those who dent the genocide should be
subjected to ostracism,” Russian Ambassador to Armenia Vyacheslav
Kovalenko said.
The Russian diplomat noted that the genocide committed in 1915 is a
great tragedy of the world that makes people feel shocked and wish
it happens never again.
Panorama.am recalls that Turkey has traditionally rejected the mass
killings of 1,5 million Armenians carried out early in the 20th
century and took the criticism of the West painfully.
Note that the following states have recognized and condemned the
Armenian Genocide carried out in the Ottoman Turkey: Uruguay (1965),
Cyprus (1982), Argentina (1993), Russian Federation (1995), Canada
(1996), Greece (1996), Lebanon (1997), Belgium (1998), Italy (2000),
Vatican (2000), France (2001), Switzerland (2003), Slovakia (2004),
the Netherlands (2004), Poland (2005), Germany (2005), Venezuela
(2005), Lithuania (2005), Chile (2007), Sweden (2010). Armenian
Genocide is also recognized by the European Parliament and World
Council of Churches.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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