NA CHAIRMAN WAS SHOCKED

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11:44 am | April 23, 2009 | Official

The delegation led by NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan will return to
Yerevan from Poland this evening.

Yesterday NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan left for Krakov. According to
information from the department of public relations of the National
Assembly, the NA delegation was received by regional head of Malopolski
Yezhi Miller.

During the meetings with Miller and local authorities of Krakov, the
parliament speaker remarked that he finds necessary the relations
between the territorial administration and local self-government
bodies of Armenia and Poland. The NA delegation was then introduced
to Krakov’s rich historical/cultural heritage after the visit to the
royal palaces of Vavel and the temple.

On the same day the NA delegation made a trip to Osventsim and visited
the complex museum-memorial of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration
camp. Hovik Abrahamyan laid flowers as a tribute to the victims of
the tragedy that took place at the concentration camp. After touring
the museum-memorial, head of the Armenian parliament wrote a memoir
in the book for honorable guests.

After getting introduced to the history of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp, NA Chairman Hovik Abrahamyan said:

"I am shocked. Nearly a million people were killed in this
concentration camp through industrious methods for being foreigners. I
condemn the Holocaust of the Jews. On April 24 we are going to
commemorate the Armenian Genocide and I am convinced once again
that perhaps there would be no Holocaust during World War II had
the Armenian genocide been condemned by the international community
before."