STRENGTHENING TWO INDEPENDENT ARMENIAN STATES BEST REPLY TO CRIMES COMMITTED BY TURKEY

DeFacto Agency, Armenia
April 25 2008

YEREVAN, 25.04.08. DE FACTO. Strengthening and developing two
independent Armenian states are the best reply to crimes committed
by Turkey, the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic President Bako Sahakian told
journalists in the course of his visit to Stepanakert Memorial Complex.

According to the head of Karabakh state, paying tribute to the memory
of the killed, we again reaffirmed our readiness to establish a strong
state, free and civilized society, where a man is the highest value,
Novosti-Armenia Agency reports.

"The crime committed in early XX century was the first crime
against Armenian nation. Our victims during the Karabakh war are the
continuation of victims of early XX century. If an adequate estimation
of the crimes against humanity had been given then, today we would
have managed to avoid new victims", Sahakian noted.

The Nagorno-Karabakh President also stated the crime had been committed
when Armenian nation had been deprived of its statehood.

On April 24 Armenians of the whole world paid homage to the memory
of the victims of Armenian Genocide committed in Osmanian Turkey.