On the evening of April 23, Tehran’s church of St. Sargis hosted a liturgy followed by a wreath laying ceremony.

“It's an honor to represent the U.S. and the American nation while paying tribute to the victims of those events,” Richard Mills said.

Nalbandian said Azerbaijan will be forced to return to the negotiating table, there being no alternative to the negotiation process.

The Diyarbakir Bar Association has sued the government, claiming that the project is a work of “military and security reconstruction”

“While geopolitics has prevented the U.S. from using the word, there’s no doubt that the Genocide is a historical fact,” the article said.

Another torchlight march was organized in Akhaltsikhe on April 23, with thousands of locals carrying Armenian tricolors.

Azeri side opened indiscriminate fire from various caliber weapons on the Armenian frontline positions.

Members of the Armenian community will protest in front of the Turkish Consulate in Jerusalem and the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Last year, during a special mass on April 12, Pope Francis described the mass killing of Armenians 100 years ago as Genocide.

President Serzh Sargsyan and First Lady Rita Sargsyan on April 24 visited Tsitsernakaberd the Armenian Genocide memorial.