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YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: Several members of the newly established European Union-Armenia Friendship Group, headed by the Chairman of the Group Eleni Teokharus, will pay tribute in Yerevan to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. As Armenpress was reported by the Chairman of Hay Dat Committee of Europe Gaspar Karapetyan, the members of the European Union-Armenia Friendship Group will visit the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial and will have meetings with the Armenian authorities and on April 26 they will leave for Artsakh.
The EU-Armenia Friendship Group consists of about 40 members, and 5 of them are in Armenia now. By the way, the deputy of the French National Assembly, the member of the EU-Armenia Friendship Group Valérie Boyer as well is a member of the Group, who is the author of the draft bill criminalizing the denial of the Armenian Genocide in France. The EU-Armenia Friendship Group intends to hold several events in Armenia.
The EU-Armenia Friendship Group was established on January 9 2013. The opening ceremony was attended by the President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Hovik Abrahamyan. It is symbolical that the members of the Group along with the Armenian nation respect the memory of the innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide.
The entire series of the documents, proving the fact of the mass massacres of the Armenian people in 1915 in the Ottoman Turkey as a premeditated and thoroughly executed act of genocide, is enormous. The Armenian Genocide was recognized by different organizations, such as the European Council, the European Parliament, some commission of the UN Organization, the World Church Union, etc.
The Armenian Genocide was recognized by many states. The first country to officially recognize the Armenian Tragedy was Uruguay in 1965. The massacres of the Armenian people were officially condemned and recognized as a genocide, in accordance with the international law, by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Greece, Slovakia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Uruguay, Argentina (2 laws and 5 draft bills), Venezuela, Chile, Canada, Vatican, and Australia.