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ARMENIAN YOUTH MARCH IN MEMORY OF SUMGAIT MASSACRE VICTIMS
February 27, 2014 | 15:58
YEREVAN. - The "Young University Students Union" NGO of Yerevan State
University on Thursday held its annual march devoted to the victims
of the genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, the NGO news
department informed.
The participants in the march laid a wreath and placed flowers to
the cross-stone, which is placed at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in
capital city Yerevan, eternalizing the memory of the Sumgait victims.
NGO director Gevorg Melkonyan noted that they are forming a new
movement whose objective is to demand from the UN and the OSCE
Minsk Group to recognize the genocide of Sumgait and to contemn its
perpetrators, since what was perpetrated complies with the provisions
of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide, which was adopted in 1948.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am
February 27, 2014 | 15:58
YEREVAN. - The "Young University Students Union" NGO of Yerevan State
University on Thursday held its annual march devoted to the victims
of the genocide of the Armenians in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, the NGO news
department informed.
The participants in the march laid a wreath and placed flowers to
the cross-stone, which is placed at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in
capital city Yerevan, eternalizing the memory of the Sumgait victims.
NGO director Gevorg Melkonyan noted that they are forming a new
movement whose objective is to demand from the UN and the OSCE
Minsk Group to recognize the genocide of Sumgait and to contemn its
perpetrators, since what was perpetrated complies with the provisions
of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide, which was adopted in 1948.
News from Armenia - NEWS.am