German president sounded firm on the Armenian genocide - Sargsyan
28.04.2015,
13:32
German president Joachim Gauck ‘s statement about the Armenian genocide sounded firm, Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan said in his interview to prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner.
YEREVAN, April 28. /ARKA/. German president Joachim Gauck ‘s statement about the Armenian genocide sounded firm, Armenia’s president Serzh Sargsyan said in his interview to prominent Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner.
On April 23, German president Joachim Gauck made his speech at a nondenominational religious service at Berlin Cathedral and called the 1915 Armenian massacres in Ottoman Turkey a genocide.
“It was a statement by a convinced and strong man, who is concerned over further relations between the nations,” Sargsyan said adding this is the kind of recognition Armenia needs.
The Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the twentieth century.
According to Armenian and many other historians, up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed starting in 1915 in a systematic campaign by the government of Turkey.
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, 43 U.S. states. It was recognized also by the Vatican, the European Parliament, the World Council of Churches and other international organizations. –0--
