PRESIDENT OF URUGUAY COMMEMORATES THE 1915 GENOCIDE VICTIMS

Aysor
April 26 2010
Armenia

President of Uruguay Jose Mojica has participated in the events,
timed to the 95th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide. A Cross-Stone,
which had been brought from Armenia, was installed in Armenia
Square of the capital of Uruguay. Jose Mojica attended the ceremony,
during which Archbishop Hakob Glnjyan of the Uruguayan Diocese of the
Armenian Apostolic Church consecrated the Cross-Stone. The ceremony
was also attended by Uruguayan Minister of Education and Culture,
and Minister of Sport and Tourism.

Uruguay is the first nation that recognized the Armenian Genocide
(decree by Senate and House of Representatives of Uruguay, 1965).