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    ARMENIA COMMEMORATING GENOCIDE VICTIMS

    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    April 24, 2013 Wednesday 12:22 PM GMT+4

    - Armenia on Wednesday is commemorating 1.5 million victims of the
    genocide that took place in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. This date,
    the same as the anniversary of the devastating earthquake of 1988,
    is marked by a black frame in the country's official calendar.

    The people on this day en mass visit the memorial, erected in 1967
    by the decision of the government of Soviet Armenia. The austere and
    stately obelisk, built on Tsitsernakaberd hill (in Armenian means
    "Swallow's fortress"), from which the whole Yerevan can be seen,
    symbolizes the sorrow for the victims and the revival of the nation.

    Thousands of people will be coming here throughout the day with
    wreaths and flowers.

    The Armenian leadership, headed by President Serzh Sargsyan, as well
    as the bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church, headed by Catholicos
    Garegin II will visit Tsitsernakaberd. Memorial services will be held
    in all Armenian churched in the country and abroad.

    The international recognition and condemnation of the genocide is one
    of Armenia's foreign policy priorities. A number of states have done
    so, and Greece and France have adopted the corresponding laws. In
    1995, the State Duma lower house of Russia's parliament adopted a
    statement condemning the Armenian genocide - the original of this
    document is stored in the genocide museum-institute that was opened
    the same year near the memorial.

    The problem of genocide for decades has clouded relations between
    Armenia and Turkey. Ankara is still refusing to recognise the
    tragic events, considering them to be legal actions by the Ottoman
    authorities against the Armenian population of the empire, which amid
    the First World War was supporting Russia. Having a common border of
    330 kilometres, Armenia and Turkey have not established diplomatic
    relations to this day.

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