MediaMax, Armenia

Jan 22 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Yerevan /Mediamax/. Armenian President Armen Sarkissian will travel to Israel today at the invitation of the country’s President Reuven Rivlin to participate in the Fifth World Holocaust Forum.

 

Titled “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism”, the event will be held at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. It will mark the 75th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz and send the message that there is no place for anti-Semitism in the modern world.

 

Heads of over 40 states are going to gather at Yad Vashem, including presidents of Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Slovakia and Iceland, as well as senior officials from other states.

 

The presidents will lay down flowers to the monument commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

 

Armen Sarkissian is expected to have bilateral meetings with some of the attending presidents in Jerusalem.

 

He will also have meetings with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin, Knesset Chairman Yuli-Yoel Edelstein and other officials, and visit the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.