Statement by Serzh Sargsyan, the President of the Republic of Armenia, in Tsitsernakaberd
On the morning of April 24, the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet has published an extensive interview with RA President Serzh Sargsyan.
I welcome you at the International Social and Political Global Forum against the Crime of Genocide. Thank you for accepting our invitation, and your most important contribution.
Armenia welcomes the statement adopted by the supreme legislative body of the Republic of Austria, the parliament, on the centennial of the genocide committed against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
On April 22 the opening ceremony of the International Media Forum “Against the Crime of Genocide” at the Sports and Concert Complex after K. Demirtchyan will be broadcasted live at 9:30-10:30, and the closing ceremony will be broadcasted live on April 23 at 13:00-13:30.
President Barack Obama today announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to the Republic of Armenia to attend the Centennial Commemoration of the Events of 1915 on April 24, 2015.
The Armenian community of Toronto, Canada, held a commemoration event for the victims of the Armenian genocide in 1915. The centennial commemoration gathering on April 19, 2015, organized at Queen’s Park in Toronto, was attended by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, Minister of National Defense of Canada Jason Kenney, Mayor of Toronto John Tory, Cardinal Thomas Collins, parliamentarians, federal and provincial officials.
The condition of the refugees was very distressing to Orvis. “We helped ‘home orphans’, too, who were children that had lost their fathers in the massacres; many of them were with their mothers but destitute. Old people were even more pitiful than the children because they were so cold and miserable and sick and lonely and neglected.
The recent “thawing” between Iran and the West rises hope in world’s challenged capitals, that Tehran’s nuclear problem will be resolved at last, and in the near future it can become a safe partner for the USA and the EU in the Middle East.
Your Highness and Prince Harry are visiting Istanbul to take part in the Anzac Day Commemoration, which has always been remembered on April 25. I do believe that it is Your duty to remember the British subjects. However, it must be acknowledged that is also Your duty to remember the Armenians, who became victims of the policy of the British Empire.
