CATHOLICOS ARAM I AND PATRIARCH PAULOS CALL ON WORLD COMMUNITY TO RECOGNIZE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Jul 13 2007

ADDIS ABBABA, JULY 13, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. Catholicos Aram
I of the Great Cilician House and Patriarch Paulos, the Head of the
Orthodox church of Ethiopia, made a joint statement on the first day
of their arrival in Addis Abbaba, the capital of Ethiopia, on July
11 and stressed the imperative necessity of the Armenian Genocide,
the first genocide of the 20th century, to be recognized by the world
community. They also attached importance to the necessity to fight
for human rights and justice, as well as the important role churches
are entitled with in this respect.

According to the information provided to Noyan Tapan by Antilias,
the visit of His Holiness to Ethiopia became a fine occasion for
rousing the issue of the violated rights of the Armenian people on
African land, especially at present when the memory of the genocide
of Rwanda is fresh in the life of the African people on the one hand,
and the genocide of Darfur is still continuing in different ways in
Sudan on the other.