PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN RECEIVES UN SECRETARY GENERAL’S ADVISOR ON GENOCIDE PREVENTION ISSUES

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YEREVAN, APRIL 20, ARMENPRESS: President Robert Kocharian received
today Juan Mendez, a special advisor to UN Secretary General on
genocide prevention issues.

Kocharian’s press office quoted Mendez as saying that his participation
in an international conference in Yerevan dedicated to the 90-th
anniversary of the Armenian genocide is evidence of a great desire
to understand and assess what happened to the Armenian nation at the
beginning of the 19-th century. He said people’s memory is a good
assistant in this issue enabling the international community to fully
explain the crime.

President Kocharian noted that eyewitnesses of the genocide never
questioned its essence and “now the Armenian people are refreshing
the international community’s memory.”

Kocharian thanked Juan Mendeza for participation in the conference
noting that Armenian continues to expect the international community
to give a just assessment to the Armenian genocide.