YEREVAN COMMEMORATES VICTIMS OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN 1915

Interfax, Russia
April 24 2006

YEREVAN. April 24 (Interfax) – Yerevan is commemorating the more than
1.5 million Armenians massacred in the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

Armenian officials and average citizens visit the Memorial of the
Genocide Victims in Yerevan every April 24.

Yerevan and Ankara still do not have diplomatic relations. Armenian
authorities are ready to establish diplomatic relations without any
preliminary conditions, but Turkish authorities want Yerevan to stop
insisting on the international recognition of the Armenian genocide
and make serious concessions to Azerbaijan in the Karabakh settlement.