YEREVAN, APRIL 24, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijani writer Eduard Bagirov expressed his condolences over the victims of Armenian Genocide. As reports Armenpress, Bagirov wrote in his web site.

“On behalf of reasonable Azerbaijanis living in Moscow I express my deepest condolences on the occasion of Armenian Genocide anniversary committed in 1915,” writer noted.

The crime committed against Armenians in 1915 was the first Genocide of 20th century.  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.