YEREVAN, APRIL 17, ARMENPRESS. U.S. Rep. David N Cicilline will travel to Ukraine and Armenia with a delegation led by Republican U.S. Rep. Ed Royce of California, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which Cicilline is a member. As reports “Armenpress” Providence Journal stated this.

The delegation, which departs Thursday and returns next week, will meet in eastern Ukraine with the major presidential candidates and the nonprofit groups that will assist in the Ukraine elections on May 25.

In Armenia, the delegation will participate April 24 in the annual Remembrance Day for the 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide.

The fact of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman government has been documented, recognized, and affirmed in the form of media and eyewitness reports, laws, resolutions, and statements by many states and international organizations. The complete catalogue of all documents categorizing the 1915 wholesale massacre of the Armenian population in Ottoman Empire as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is extensive. Uruguay was the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as genocide in accordance with the international law by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican and Australia.