European Figures Pay Tribute To Armenian Genocide Victims Memory

EUROPEAN FIGURES PAY TRIBUTE TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS MEMORY

13:22, 11 April, 2014

YEREVAN, APRIL 11, ARMENPRESS. The wreath laying ceremony with the
participation of the European politicians and economists was held by
the unquenchable fire in the Tzitzernakaberd Memorial dedicated to the
innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide. The European politicians and
economists paid a visit to Armenia to participate in the economic forum
titled “Armenia’s Socio-Economic Development and Ways of Integration.”

As reports “Armenpress”, the vice-chairman of the Committee on Economic
Affairs of the National Council of the Slovak Republic Maroš Kondrót,
the Director of the Diplomatic Academy of the Czech Republic Cyril
Svoboda, Professor at the University of Economics of Slovakia Peter
Balazh and other guests were accompanied by the MP of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Mikayel Melkumyan.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has
been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media
and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many
states and international organizations. The complete catalogue
of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the
Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly
executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country
to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres
of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as
genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland,
Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina,
Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress