Armenian Genocide must never be forgotten: Russian Ambassador
24.04.2013,
14:32
The Armenian Genocide should never be forgotten, the outgoing Russian ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, told Armenian reporters today as hundreds of thousands of Armenians from Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora are remerging 1.5 million of Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turkey during World War I.
YEREVAN, April 24. / ARKA /. The Armenian Genocide should never be forgotten, the outgoing Russian ambassador to Armenia, Vyacheslav Kovalenko, told Armenian reporters today as hundreds of thousands of Armenians from Armenia proper and its vast Diaspora are remerging 1.5 million of Armenians killed by the Ottoman Turkey during World War I.
"Many years will pass but this tragedy of a people will be remembered. This chapter in the history of the Armenian people will be leafed through so that this tragedy will never happen again," Kovalenko said.
According to him, the humanity must remember this day as an example of barbaric and brutal action, which has no excuse, no matter how much time has passed.
The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century. Turkey has been denying it for decades. The Armenian genocide was recognized by tens of countries. The first was Uruguay that did so in 1965. Other nations are Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania,
Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon, Canada, Venezuela, Argentina, 42 U.S. states. The Armenian Genocide was recognized by the Vatican, the European Parliament, the World Council of Churches and other international organizations. -0-
