"At the Foot of Ararat" int'l forum declaration condemns GenocideMarch 21, 2015 - 11:58 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The participants of "At the Foot of Ararat" international media forum, which is underway in Yerevan, adopted a joint declaration condemning the Armenian Genocide, Armenian media report. The declaration says, “We, representatives of different countries, nationalities and religions, pay tribute to the Armenian people and honor the memory of the 1.5 million innocent victims of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. We strongly condemn the plan of destroying the Armenian nation, its centuries-old culture and depriving people of their homeland as well as mass killings, massacres and ethnic cleansing that followed. We condemn denialist policies attempting to present Genocide as falsification of historical facts and distorting the causes, mechanisms and consequences of the tragedy. We pay tribute to those journalists who reported about the terrible crimes committed in the Ottoman Empire.” Top stories David Vardanyan is the son of former Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan who who is currently imprisoned in Azerbaijan. The number of state universities will be reduced from 23 to 8 by 2030, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport Zhanna Andreasyan has said. From September 21 to November 11, a total of 2,820 Russians registered at a place of residence in Armenia, the police has said. The situation on the contact line between Karabakh and Azerbaijan was relatively stable overnight, the Defense Army says. Partner news | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. U.S. believes peace is “possible” in South Caucasus The United States continues to believe that peace is possible in the South Caucasus, Vedant Patel said. |