ARMINFO News Agency, Armenia
 Friday


President of Israel confessed that Tel Aviv does not recognize the
Armenian Genocide for political reasons

Yerevan October 27

Tatevik Shahunyan. The world-famous French chansonnier of Armenian
origin Charles Aznavour at the residence of Israeli President Reuven
Rivlin in Jerusalem raised the issue of recognizing the Armenian
Genocide in Tel-Aviv in Ottoman Turkey.

During the ceremony of awarding medals of the Swedish diplomat Raoul
Wallenberg for "heroic actions during the Holocaust" to Aznavour and
his sister Aide, the world famous chanson asked the Israeli leader
when Israel recognizes the Armenian Genocide.

"I will not ask you a secret question, and I do not expect an answer.
However, it is important to raise this issue. Why do not you recognize
the Armenian Genocide, while they themselves suffered from the fascist
regime? "Aznavour said.

In response, the President of Israel confessed: "Unfortunately, the
Israeli government, for political reasons, could not recognize the
tragic events in the Ottoman Empire of 1915 as genocide, but I myself
raised the issue in the Knesset and the UN."