ARMENIAN GENOCIDE COMMEMORATED IN TEHRAN

Armenpress

TEHRAN, APRIL 20, ARMENPRESS: Some twenty members of the Iranian
parliament, Iranian journalists, as well as 200 representatives of
the Iranian intellectual community, government officials and members
of the local Armenian community were present at an April 19 event at
Tehran’s Armenian Club, convened by the Iranian Center for Studying
of Armenian issues and the local branch of Armenian national Committee
to mark the 90-th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Gevork Vardanian, the Armenian member of the Iranian parliament,
welcomed the present. Following this Aida Hovhanesian, a local
Armenian lawyer, spoke about the political and legal aspects of
the genocide. The present also viewed “Germany and Secret Genocide”
documentary. Also booklets on genocide in Iranian and English were
distributed to participants of the event.

Addressing earlier in the day the Iranian parliament’ Gevork Vardanian
said: “The Armenian Genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire is a
crime that if remained unpunished could be repeated in any other part
of the world. I am calling on the parliament and the government to
assist us in having the international community, world governments
and parliaments to condemn this crime.”