RA PRESIDENT: APRIL 24 IS EVER PRESENT IN OUR REALITY

PanArmenian News
April 25 2009
Armenia

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian nation had defeats and victories, loses
and achievements all through its history. But there’s one dividing
point to our history, April 24 1915.

After this date we had to face a completely different reality, RA
President Serzh Sargsyan told when interviewed by Russia Today RF
TV Channel.

Millions of people were living on their lands, creating cultural
values, but suddenly had to abandon these territories. "Part
of them was killed and another part abandoned territories to
survive. Nowadays there’s practically no country in the world where
the Armenians wouldn’t have settled for residence. Half of today’s
Armenian population is Genocide survivors’ descendants," RA President
noted. According to him, Armenian-Turkish border is the last closed
border in Europe.

"Armenia gained independence in 1991. It’s been 18 years since, but
the border is still closed. I don’t cite the example to say we’re
being blockaded but so that it would be clear that Apr. 24 is ever
present in our reality." Serzhe Sarsyan stressed that as an Armenian
president he has to take every effort to mitigate consequences of
this atrocious crime and prevent its repetition.

International recognition of the Armenian Genocide is the most
effective way to reach it.