President of Armenia lays flowers at Armenian Genocide Memorial
24.04.2013,
11:39
President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan laid the wreath and flowers at Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday, Genocide Remembrance Day.
YEREVAN, April 24./ARKA/. President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan laid the wreath and flowers at Tsitsernakaberd Genocide Memorial in Yerevan on Wednesday, Genocide Remembrance Day.
President Sargsyan is delegated by Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II, Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Speaker of Parliament Hovik Abrahamyan, Chief of National Security Service Gorik Hakobyan, Chairman of Constitutional Court Gagik Harutyunyan, Yerevan Mayor Taron Margaryan, members of parliament and other officials.
The servants of the Armenian Apostolic Church chanted a prayer at the “Eternal flame.”
The Armenians all over the world commemorate the victims of the Genocide on April 24. This year is the 98th anniversary.
Armenian genocide was the first genocide committed in XX century. Turkey denies the accusation of massacres and the killing of one and a half million Armenians during World War I.
The Armenian Genocide was recognized by Russia, Germany, France, Netherlands, Vatican, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Venezuela, Lebanon, France, 42 U.S. states, as well as by the parliaments of Greece, Cyprus, Argentina, Belgium, National Council of Switzerland, Canada, Poland, Italy, other countries as well as the European Parliament, the World Council of Churches. -0-
