ATHENS, 31 MARCH, ARMENPRESS. The Greece-based Pan-Pontian Association has issued a statement and has expressed its gratitude for the adoption by the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia of a draft law on recognizing the genocide of Pontic Greeks and Assyrians.

As “Armenpress” reports, the statement reads that the recognition and condemnation by the National Assembly of Armenia of the genocide of the Greeks and Assyrians in the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1923 is the best evidence of the close cooperation between Pontic Greeks and the fraternal Armenian people. The Association also emphasizes that the two nations must continue the joint struggle to have the international community recognize and condemn the genocide of Christian nations (Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians).