ACTIVITIES DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE’S 91st ANNIVERSARY HELD IN BELGIUM AND NETHERLANDS

Arka News Agency, Armenia
April 25 2006

YEREVAN, April 25. /ARKA/. Activities dedicated to the 91st anniversary
of the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire were held in Belgium
and the Netherlands. The press service of the RA foreign ministry
reported that after completing the Holy Liturgy in the Armenian church
in Brussels a mournful meeting of Armenian Ambassador to Belgium
Vigen Chitechyan, Head of Armenia’s mission in NATO countries Samvel
Lazarian, Belgian MPs, representatives of Brussels local authorities,
and also Belgium’s Armenian and Jewish communities.

Participators headed toward the memorials of the genocide victims
and held a meeting in front of the Turkish embassy. On 23 April,
an activity dedicated to the memory of the genocide victims was
organized in one of Amsterdam churches with participation of the head
of the NATO mission, local MPs, representatives of the Information
and Documentary Center of Israel in Hague, and also Chairman of the
Council of the Netherlands’ churches van Eik.

A protest action was held in the center of Hague on 24 April in
the evening.

The Armenian genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th
century, organized and systematically executed by the Young Turkish
government. About 1.5mln Armenians were massacred in Western Armenia
that was part of the Ottoman Empire.