ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATED IN BAGHDAD
Panorama.am
02/05/2012
The 97th anniversary of Armenian Genocide is being commemorated in
different country. St. Grigor Lusavorich Church in Baghdad hosted
liturgy on Tuesday.
Foreign Ministry press department says Armenian Ambassador to Iraq
Murad Muradyan, Ambassador of Vatican to Iraq, senior clergymen and
representatives of Armenian organizations were present at the service.
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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