Armenia wants world community to fairly assess genocide – president

Mediamax news agency
20 Apr 05

Yerevan, 20 April: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan received the
UN secretary-general’s special adviser on genocide, Juan Mendez,
in Yerevan today.

Mendez pointed out that his participation in the Yerevan conference
dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Armenian genocide testifies to
his desire “to understand and evaluate what happened to the Armenian
people at the beginning of the last century”, the presidential press
service told Mediamax new agency today.

Mendez said that “the historical memory of the nation is a good
assistant in this cause and will give the international community an
opportunity to clarify in full what had happened”.

Kocharyan noted that contemporaries who witnessed the Armenian
genocide did not question its essence and now “the Armenian people
is only refreshing the memory of the international community”.

The Armenian president thanked the UN secretary-general’s special
adviser on genocide for participating in the conference and pointed
out that Yerevan is hoping on the international community in the fair
assessment of the Armenian genocide.