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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:38:17 EDT
ARMENIA COMMEMORATES 1915 GENOCIDE
Hundreds of thousands of Armenians converged on 24 April on the memorial in Yerevan to the estimated 1.5 million Armenians killed in Ottoman Turkey in 1915, RFE/RL's Yerevan bureau reported. President Robert Kocharian and other senior officials attended a prayer service at the memorial officiated by Catholicos Garegin II. The opposition alliance Artarutiun organized a separate procession of several thousand supporters. In his written address to the country to mark the anniversary, Kocharian reaffirmed the Armenian government's commitment to work for international recognition of the genocide, including by Turkey. But at the same time he stressed his "sincere intention of maintaining normal relations with all neighboring countries." A similar commemoration took place in Stepanakert, capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Noyan Tapan reported. LF
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