ARMENIA REMEMBERS VICTIMS OF GENOCIDE IN OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Interfax News Agency, Russia
April 24 2008

Armenia remembered victims of the genocide in the Ottoman Empire in
1915 on Thursday.

President Serzh Sargsyan, Speaker Tigran Torosian, Prime Minister
Tigran Sargsyan and other officials visited the Armenian Genocide
Memorial Tsitserkaberd in the morning. They laid wreaths at the
eternal flame.

Church hierarchs, officers, opposition members, foreign ambassadors
and guests, and citizens also took part in the remembrance ceremony.

Twenty-three countries and 40 states of the U.S. recognized the
Armenian genocide. More than 1.5 million Armenians were killed in the
Ottoman Empire in 1915. Turkey denies the responsibility for the first
case of genocide in the 20th century. Ankara also refuses to establish
diplomatic relations with Yerevan until the latter stops trying to
achieve the international recognition of the Armenian genocide and
resolves the Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan.