DeFacto Agency, Armenia
May 30 2008

MONUMENT TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS ERECTED IN CYPRUS

YEREVAN, 30.05.08. DE FACTO. A solemn ceremony of opening of the
Monument to Armenian Genocide victims was held in Larnaca, Cyprus, on
May 28. The ceremony was held by Demetris Christofias, President of
Republic of Cyprus, and Vahram Kajoyan, the RA Ambassador to Greece
and Cyprus. According to Genocide.ru Information Service, Demetris
Christofias noted the Monument to the Armenian genocide victims in
Larnaca was quite symbolic: `It was here that the first Armenian
refugees put ashore saving their lives in 1915”.

The President expressed his respect and solidarity with the local
Armenian community and assured the government would continue its
struggle for the reunion of Cyprus and better future of the country
and its people. Addressing those present Vahram Kajoyan thanked the
Larnaca City Hall and Cyprus’s government for their assistance.

To remind, an agreement on erecting a Monument to the Armenian
Genocide victims was reached in 2005 between Dimitris Christofias, the
Chair of Cyprus’s House of Representatives, and Arthur Baghdasarian,
the RA Parliament Chair of that time. In a year, in November 2006,
within the frames of an official visit to Cyprus, Robert Kocharian
laid the first stone to the base of the future monument.