U.S. AMBASSADOR PAYS TRIBUTE TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
Panorama.am
24/04/2012
Ambassadors of the United States and Germany John Heffern and
Hans-Jochen Schmidt respectively bowed to the memory of innocent
victims of Armenian Genocide.
Putting flowers in Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex U.S. Ambassador
and his spouse crossed themselves and left.
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.
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