GENOCIDE RECOGNITION HAS PREVENTIVE VALUE, SAYS ARMENIAN PARLIAMENT OFFICIAL
15:30 * 16.10.14
Armenia’s parliament a vice speaker, who is in Switzerland on a
working visit, has thanked the country’s legislative authorities for
the passage of a resolution aimed condemning the Genocide.
At a meeting with Claude Heche, the first vice president of the Swiss
Federal Council of States, Eduard Sharmazanov highly praised the move,
noting that the recognition and the condemnation of a crime of genocide
is a step ahead towards preventing similar atrocities in future.
He further praised a recent decision to erect the monument Memorial
Lanterns in Geneva’s Ariana Park to eternalize the victims of the
big tragedy.
According to a press release by the National Assembly, the sides also
discussed the recent developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
settlement talks and the current level of the Armenian-Swiss relations.
At the end of the meeting, Sharmazanov invited the Swiss official
to visit Armenia next year to participate in the Genocide centennial
commemoration events.
Armenian News – Tert.am
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