RA NA SPEAKER VISITS KRAKOW AND OSWIECIM

NOYAN TAPAN
APRIL 23, 2009
YEREVAN

RA National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamian, who arrived in Krakow
on April 22 within the framework of an official visit to Poland,
had a meeting with Malopolski Governor Jerzy Miller and Krakow
local authorities, during which he said that contacts between RA and
Polish regional government and local self-government bodies should
be encouraged.

The same day the Armenian delegation left for Oswiecim and visited the
Memorial Complex-Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. H.

Abrahamian laid a wreath in token of respect for the memory of victims
of the tragedy at that concentration camp.

After getting acquainted with the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Concentration Camp H. Abrahamian said: "I am just shocked. Nearly
one million people were killed at that camp. They were exterminated
by industrial methods. The reason was only that they were people of
another nationality. I condemn the tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust. We
will commemorate the Armenian Genocide victims on April 24. I once
more made sure that if the Armenian Genocide were condemned in the
whole world in its time, maybe that tragedy would not recur in the
years of World War II."

According to the RA NA Public Relations Department, the delegation led
by H. Abrahamian is returning to Yerevan in the evening of April 23.