PRESIDENT OF ARMENIA: EVERY PEOPLE HAS A RIGHT TO DETERMINE THE WAY IT WANTS TO FOLLOW BY ITSELF

ArmInfo
2010-05-10 16:28:00

ArmInfo. Armenians made a ponderable contribution to the Victory,
and many a generation of Armenians is brought up by the example of 119
heroes of the Soviet Union and 27 Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of
three degrees, awarded during the Great Patriotic War, President of
Armenia Serzh Sargsyan said in an interview with Vesti 24 TV channel.

"It is no mere chance that I started my visit with laying of wreathes
to the graves of the eminent sons of the Armenian people: Marshals
Baghramyan, Babajanyan, Khudyakov and Admiral Isakov", Sargsyan said.

He emphasized that just the generation of Armenians, who have seen the
inhuman cruelties of 1915 Armenian Genocide at close quarters, took
part in this Great war. "It is no mere chance that Armenians fought
against the fascism not only among the Soviet Army but also among
Resistance and other troops of the Anti-Hitler coalition. We still
consider that fascism is an ideology which divides the people into
ethnic groups, and ideology which may lead to the genocide of other
peoples, so, it may have no justification", S. Sargsyan said. The
Armenian president also urged to remember the lessons of the World
War II. "One should remember that division of people on grounds of
ethnos or race always leads to negative consequences; that one’s own
well-being cannot be built on others’ grief; that every people has
a right to live and develop where it has been living for centuries,
and that every people should determine the way it wants to follow by
itself", S. Sargsyan said.