Memorial To Armenian Genocide Unveiled In Southern Hungary

MEMORIAL TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE UNVEILED IN SOUTHERN HUNGARY

11:05 22.04.2013

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the Armenian genocide during WWI
was inaugurated in Szeged, S Hungary, on Saturday, politics.hu reports.

The cross stone was erected in the Park of Christian Solidarity near
Szeged cathedral.

Addressing the ceremony, goodwill ambassador Levon Sargsian welcomed
that a memorial of this kind was unveiled in Hungary.

“Although the recent period has witnessed some difficult moments,
they have been swept away like ash in the wind,” he said.

Although diplomatic relations between Armenia and Hungary were broken,
ties between the two nations date back to centuries, Levon Sargsian
said.

The ambassador stressed the need to pay tribute to the 1.5 million
victims and fight to prevent similar atrocities anywhere in the world.

Addressing a letter to the participants, Hungarian Foreign
Minister Janos Martonyi said that the two nations had been bound by
centuries-long friendship, arising from a common Christian faith,
common fate and the remarkable achievements of Armenians who had
settled in Hungary.

Martonyi said that Hungarian-Armenian friendship should be further
deepened and cooperation extended in all fields of life, including
diplomatic relations.

Despite the regrettable cessation of political contacts, Hungary
supports Armenia’s endeavour for integration into Europe and would
welcome if talks on the association and free trade agreements were
concluded at the Vilnius summit of the Eastern Partnership and the
European Union, Martonyi said.

Armenia unilaterally suspended diplomatic relations with Hungary last
August after an Azeri officer, serving a life sentence for murdering
an Armenian officer in Budapest, had been repatriated to his homeland
where he had been released.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress