SOFIA ISSUES A STATEMENT ON GENOCIDE
AZG
April 22 2009
Armenia
Bulgarian capital Sofia Municipal Council issued a statement on the
Armenian Genocide, Armenian Foreign Ministry press service reported.
The statement reads in part: "The annihilation of 1,5 mln Armenians
in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-22, as well as their mass eviction and
banishment committed by the government of the Young Turks is a proved
historical fact. These incidents are observed as genocide against the
Armenian people and wholly correspond to the UN convention. According
to the humane traditions of the Bulgarian people and the Armenian and
Bulgarian peoples’ common fate under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire,
we, the Municipal Council deputies, express our collaboration and
sympathy with the Armenian community in Bulgaria, and as well as unite
in commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide on April 24".