SARKISIAN TO LAY WREATH AT WILSON TOMB

Asbarez
Apr 11th, 2010

WASHINGTON (A.W.)-Armenia’s President Serge Sarkisian, who arrives
in DC tonight for the Nuclear Security Summit from April 12-13, will
visit the Washington National Cathedral on Monday, April 12, at 11
a.m. and lay a wreath at the tomb of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.

President Wilson was a great friend of the Armenian people and an
advocate for an independent Armenia which included three Armenian
provinces of the Ottoman Empire (Erzerum, Bitlis, Van, and north to the
Black Sea port of Trabzon) in the aftermath of World War I. The Treaty
of Sevres, which included President Wilson’s boundary configuration
of Armenia, was not ratified by the Ottoman Empire.

The Armenian Embassy in the U.S. announced that leaders and members
of the Armenian community are welcome to join the ceremony.

President Sarkisian is also expected to meet with Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the summit. Erdogan
proposed such a meeting in a written message that was taken to Yerevan
by high-ranking Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu.