Armenian districts of violence-ridden Cairo, Alexandria calm

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian-populated districts of violence-ridden Cairo are rather calm, due to a curfew imposed in the Egyptian capital, a writer, newspaper editor Suren Parsamian said.

All the Christian churches in the city are protected by security forces; however cases of demolition of churches were reported in other cities, Parsamian said.

“No specific information was published over Egypt’s submitting a document for the Armenian Genocide recognition to the UN. However, according to leading Egyptian papers, the initiative belongs to Egyptian leadership as well as Armenian Cause (Hay Dat) bureaus.

An Alexandria resident Perch Alajian further noted the situation in the city to be calm, with no attacks on churches reported. A curfew was imposed on Alexandria as well.

As he noted, Egyptian Armenians issued a letter of thanks to the interim leader Adly Mansour for his initiative to recognize the Genocide, Aztag Beirut-based daily said.