KAROLOS PAPOULIAS: "THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS A BLACK LINE IN THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF MANKIND"
By Gohar Gevorgian

AZG Armenian Daily #122,
29/06/2007

Armenian Genocide

President of Greece Karolos Papoulias and his spouse May Papoulia,
who are paying a three-day visit to Armenia, visited Tsitsernakaberd,
the memorial to the victims of the Armenian Genocide, on June 27.

The Greece President and his spouse, and the Greece delegation
accompanied by RA Foreign Minster Vardan Oskanian and his spouse Nani
Oskanian walked to the Memorial of the Genocide and laid a wreath to
the Memorial.

After a minute of a silence the Delegation walked to the Armenian
Genocide Museum, where the members of the delegation listened to the
director of the Museum Haik Demoian, who told about the Armenian
Genocide. When acquainting with those horrible events they also
looked at the episodes and pictures of the tragedy of the Armenian
people. The Greece reporters took notes about the Armenian Genocide
with great interest.

The Greece President wrote in the Commemoration book of the museum,
"The Armenian Genocide is a black line in the contemporary history of
mankind. The perpetrators should recognize it, take responsibility
and apologize. The spouse of the Greece president also made a note
in the book, "I once again felt the deep roots that unite Armenian
and Greece peoples. Thank you for the emotional attitude".

Karolos Papoulias planted a fir at the Memory Alley.

After that the Greece delegation directed its steps to Yerevan State
University.

According to the Armenian Genocide Museum’s data, on April 25, 1996,
the Greece Parliament issued a law on "the establishment of the 24th
of April as the day of commemoration of the genocide of Armenians
by Turkey".