HEARINGS ON THEME OF “RECOGNITION OF THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE” TAKE PLACE AT SITTING OF LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCIL

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Apr 26 2006

LOS ANGELES, APRIL 26, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Hearings on
the theme “Recognition of the Armenian Genocide” were organized
at the April 21 sitting of the Los Angeles City Council within
the framework of events dedicated to the 91st anniversary of the
Armenian Genocide. Members of the City Council, Gagik Kirakosian,
the RA Consul General in Los Angeles, the Hay Dat (Armenian cause)
representatives and other guests were present at the event which was
organized on the initiative of the Los Angeles City Council and the
Hay Dat Committee of America. Eric Garcetti, the Los Angeles City
Coucil Chairman who was the main speaker of the day, touching upon
the issues of condemning the Armenian Genocide and recognition of the
Armenian Genocide by the California State Senate and Los Angeles City
Council, mentioned that the work in that direction may be considered
finished only after recognition of the Genocide by Washington. As Noyan
Tapan was informed by the RA Foreign Ministry’s Press and Information
Department, a number of members of the City Council as well as RA
Consul General to Los Angeles Gagik Kirakosian, who thanked the Los
Angeles City Council for organizing Armenian Genocide condemning and
memory events, made speeches.