Armenia’s government announces April 23 a day off
11.04.2015,
14:45
Armenia’s government decided, at its meeting on April 11, to make April 23 a day off and Saturday April 18 a working day instead, the government press office reported.
YEREVAN, April 11. /ARKA/. Armenia’s government decided, at its meeting on April 11, to make April 23 a day off and Saturday April 18 a working day instead, the government press office reported.
The change is made as the Armenian genocide victims will be sanctified on April 23, the head of the government staff David Harutiunyan said.
On April 23, one day before April 24, the day of commemoration of the victims of Armenian Genocide, the victims will be sanctified in the Saint Echmiadzin Church, and this will be one of the most important historic events, since the last sanctification in Armenia was conducted 400 years ago.
Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century. Turkey rejects the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.
The fact of the Armenian genocide is recognized by many countries, particularly by Uruguay, Russia, France, Lithuania, most of the U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, Wales, National Council of Switzerland, Common House of Canada, the Seym of Poland and lower house of Italian parliament. –0--
