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Headlines for April 24, 2009LEVON ARONIAN DEFENDS HIS POSITIONS
In the eights round of FIDE Grand Prix Levon Aronian-Peter Svidler set ended in draw. Armenian GM has 5 points and he leads the tournament without sharing it. Boris Gelfand defeated Rustam Kasimdzhanov ...PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN’S ADDRESS TO 24 APRIL
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The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyans address to 24 April. Dear compatriots, today we bow our heads and pay a tribute to the victims of the Great Armenian Genocide. 94 years ago Ottoman Turkey conducted ...24 APRIL: GREAT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MARKED
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Today 24 April is marked in the Republic of Armenia. According to the RA law on holidays and tribute days 24 April is marked official non-working day. Today Armenia and the Armenians pay tribute to those ...NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DELEGATION TO PACE LEAVES FOR STRASBURG
The National Assembly Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) chaired by the head of the delegation Davit Harutyunyan, delegation members Avet Adonts, Hermine Naghdalyan, ...US AMBASSADOR TO ARMENIA PRAYS FOR VICTIMS’ MEMORY
The Ambassador of the United States to Armenia Marie Yiovanovich has just visited Tsitsernakaberd monument. Mrs. Ambassador has put flowers to undying fire. The Ambassador told the journalists: Today ...GUL GAVE CALL TO ALIEV TO SAY ARMENIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO NKR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
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The President of Turkey Abdullah Gul discussed the Armenian-Turkish relations and the Nagorno Karabakh conflict with the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev by telephone on April 23, Turkish media reports. ...ARF DASHNAKTSUTIUN WILL LEAVE COALITION IF POLITICAL STRATEGY IS CHANGED
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The opening of the border has nothing to do with the Genocide. Opening of the border is the basic duty of Turkey, Armen Roustamyan, member of ARF Dashnaktsutyun told the journalists in Tsitsernakaberd. ...TURKISH MEDIA REPORTS PARTIES SIGNED STATEMENT ON FIVE POINTS
Turkish media managed to get information about the road map normalizing the Armenian-Turkish relations. According to the source the details of the statement signed by the Foreign Ministries of Armenia, ...DIASPORA MINISTER SAYS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS NOT MATTER OF BARGAIN
The international society and Turkey should recognize the Armenian Genocide, Hranush Hakobian, the Minister of Diaspora said when she paid a tribute memory to the Genocide victims in Tsitsernakaberd. ...JAVIER SOLANA SAYS STATEMENT GOOD NEWS FOR EUROPE
Javier Solana, the European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, greeted the statement made on Wednesday by the Foreign Ministries of Armenia and Turkey saying that it ...AMBASSADOR OF UKRAINE SAYS HIS NATION SHARES ARMENIANS GRIEF
The entire world and Ukraine condoles the Armenian nation with this great tragedy, the Ambassador of Ukraine Alexander Bozhko said when commemorating Genocide victims in Tsitsernakaberd. The Ambassador ...PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN SAYS HE WILL VISIT TURKEY IF BORDER IS OPEN
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan gave yesterday an interview to Russia Today TV station and said that the aftermaths of the resolution of the Armenian-Turkish relations are closer. The President ...SERZH SARGSYAN SAYS GENOCIDE RECOGNITION MOST EFFICIENT WAY FOR PREVENTION OF SUCH CRIMES
But for me as the President of Armenia it is my duty to take measures to soften the impact of that terrible tragedy and to take measures to make sure that such crimes will not repeat in the future. And ...SERZH SARGSYAN HAD A TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH JOE BIDEN
The Vice President of the United States Joe Biden had a telephone conversation with the President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan on 23 April. The U.S. Vice President greeted the statement made by the Foreign ...
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Today in Armenian history- 775 Battle of Ardzni (Bagrevand).
- 1877 Tsar Alexander the Second starts the Russian-Turkish War in the Balkans and on the territory of ancient Armenia. The war ended with the victory of Russia.
- 1910 Death of Armenian writer Victoria Azanoor (Pompili). She wrote in Italian. Her books were translated into Armenian by Father Arsen Ghazikian.
- 1915 The arrest, exile and murder of the Armenian intellectuals (about 800) of Constantinople. The Turks start the implementation of their state plan for the Armenian Genocide. About one million Armenians are killed.
- 1937 The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia decides to dissolve the Committee of the Transcaucasian Countries.
- 1965 The Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide took place in about 25 countries out of respect for the memory of the innocent victims. A monument was unveiled in the Main Cathedral of Echmiadsin. The monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide in Montebello, California.
- 1968 The World Congress of Peace Movements, with the participation of organizations from 64 countries and of 16 international organizations, commemorated the Armenian Genocide.
- 1973 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Marseilles, France.
- 1975 Opening of monuments commemorating the memory of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. They were in Bikfaya (Lebanon), Athens (Greece) and Milan (Italy).
- 1978 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Lyon, France.
- 1984 A monument to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was placed in Alfortville, near Paris.
- 1987 An Armenian stone-cross dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide is unveiled in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1989 A monument dedicated to the memory of the Armenian Genocide was unveiled in Sydney, Australia.
- 1990 President Bush issued a news release calling on all Americans to join with Armenians on April 24 in commemorating "the more than a million Armenian people who were victims".
- 1994 President Clinton issued a news release on April 24, to commemorate the "tragedy" that befell the Armenians in 1915.
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