ANC Canada: Representatives of Canada government to attend April 24 events

22:00, 14.03.2015
Region:World News, Armenia, Turkey
Theme: Politics

The Canadian Armenian Genocide Centennial Committee will organize
numerous events ahead and after April 24, and the Committee has been
working on these events for the past two years, Executive Director of
the Armenian National Committee of Canada Roupen Kouyoumdjian said in
an interview with Armenian News-NEWS.am.

Events will include cultural, political, academic, social and
religious ceremonies throughout Canada. The list of events also
includes academic conferences in different cities including
internationally renown scholars such as Henri Theriault and Geoffry
Robertson, cultural events such as World premiere of Bedros
Shoujounian’s Armenian Symphony. On April 24 a commemoration march
will be held in Ottawa and on May 3rd a special march will be
organized in each city through the Armenian Youth, local and federal
political figures will certainly take part in such events.

“High level representatives of the Canadian government will attend
April 24 events in Yerevan, but due to certain circumstances which you
certainly understand, those names are not yet made public,” Roupen
Kouyoumdjian said.

Executive Director of ANC Canada is confident that western pressure
can make Turkey change its position on the Armenian Genocide,”
Kouyoumdjian believes.

“Isolating Turkey on this question on the international scene will
definitely be a major force pushing it to recognize the genocide. Once
official recognition is obtained, we must turn to the Convention on
the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide to deal with issues such as
reparations, restitution and reconciliation,” he added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress