KOCHARIAN AND CHIRAC TO PAY RESPECT TO GENOCIDE VICTIMS

Armenpress

PARIS, APRIL 21, ARMENPRESS: Armenian president Robert Kocharian who
arrived in Paris yesterday on a working visit and president Jacques
Chirac will commemorate the victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide on
April 22 evening. They will place a wreath at a monument to prominent
Armenian composer Komitas in downtown Paris, symbolizing the Armenian
genocide.

France is among those countries which officially recognized the
Armenian genocide. The event is thought to become an important
diplomatic move since it will be Chirac’s first official commemoration
of the genocide victims.

The move is also expected to become a message to Turkey to remind
it that it has to come to terms with its past and assume the
responsibility for the first genocide of the 20-th century.