Armenia's President paid tribute to memory of Armenian Genocide victims

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS. Today, on the 99th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, President Serzh Sargsyan visited Tsitsernakaberd and paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. He laid a wreath at the memorial and placed flowers near the eternal fire which perpetuates the memory of the innocent victims. The Mass Media and Public Relations Department of the President’s Office informed “Armenpress” about this.

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.