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Published on April 16, 2008
CYPRUS PARLIAMENT TO COMMEMORATE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
- Like every year after their arrival in Cyprus as Genocide survivors, the Armenian community of Cyprus is preparing to commemorate the reason why they ended up in Cyprus almost 90 years ago. The highlight of the series of events in the capital - under the auspices of the President of the House of Representatives Marios Garoyian - is the political meeting featuring PASOK MP and former Defense Minister Akis Tzokatsopoulos on Wednesday April 23. The following day on Thursday 24 April, the community will march along Armenia street, leading up to the Genocide Memorial where a Vigil will be held, while the Armenian youth will set up a big screen on Eleftheria Square and will distribute informative leaflets to passers-by. On Thursday 17 April at 4:00 pm, during the session of the Cyprus Parliament, commemorating the Armenian Genocide, Armenian representative in the Cyprus Parliament Vartkes Mahdessian will address the House. The entrance to the public during the commemoration is open to all community members, Gibrahayer.com reports.
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Today in Armenian history- 1879 Death in Moscow (Russia) of Stepanos Nazaryan, editor of the "Aurora Borealis". He was born in 1812.
- 1918 The "Messenger Book" daily is published in Tbilissi (Georgia): the first Soviet newspaper in Armenian.
- 1923 The Soviet of People's Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the State Cinema of Soviet Armenia (HayFilm).
- 1953 Academician Hrachia Atcharyan (linguist) dies in Yerevan. He was born in 1876.
- 1958 Death of composer Vagharshak Srvandztian.
- 1959 The Armenian SSR Supreme Soviet confirms the new Education Policy of Armenia.
- 1984 The US House of Representatives accepts a resolution (number 247) requesting that the Government announce that 1985 04 24 be designated a "National Day of Commemoration of Man's Inhumanity to Man".
- 1984 The Permanent People's Tribunal recognized the Armenian Genocide.
- 1998 An international seminar took place in the Sorbonne (Paris) on the Armenian Genocide. It was organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Party and financed by the See of Cilicia.
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