ROBERT KOCHARIAN: STRONG ARMENIA SHOULD BE ARMENIAN PEOPLE’S RESPONSE TO THOSE COMMITTING AND DENYING ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Apr 24 2007

YEREVAN, APRIL 24, NOYAN TAPAN. On the occasion of Commemoration
Day of Armenian Genocide RA President Robert Kocharian addressed a
message to the Armenian people. The message provided to Noyan Tapan
from RA President’s Press Office read:

"Dear compatriots,

Every year on April 24 we commemorate the innocent victims of the
Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Turkey. But we always bear
memory about that crime in our souls.

Many countries of the world remember and commemorate that day together
with the Armenian people. The international community realized that
genocide is a crime aimed not only against individual people, but
also against the whole mankind: a crime, the denial and concealing
of which are no less dangerous than its preparation and fulfilment.

Ordeals and feeling of unfairness have a property of uniting. The
disaster of the genocide strengthened the feeling of Armenian identity,
made Armenians consolidate, strengthened the wish of independent
statehood. Being the reflection of Armenian people’s ancient-old dream,
the Republic of Armenia should prosper and develop as the homeland
of all Armenians. Strong, democratic, well-off Armenia should be
Armenian people’s response to those planning, committing and denying
the Armenian Genocide."