GEORGIAN FM TO VISIT MEMORIAL OF ‘GENOCIDE’ VICTIMS IN ARMENIA
Azerbaijan Business Center
Feb 20 2009
Azerbaijan
Baku, Fineko/abc.az. Stating of its strategic partnership with Turkey
and Azerbaijan, Georgia nevertheless is taking steps that can hardly
be regarded within this context.
Citing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, news agency RIA
Novosti reports that today foreign minister Grigol Vashadze of Georgia
is arriving in Armenia with two-day official visit. Within his trip
the Georgian FM will meet President Serzh Sargsyan, prime minister
Tigran Sarkisyan and his counterpart Edvard Nalbandyan.
Vashadze is also expected to visit the memorial to Armenian genocide
victims in Yerevan, although up to date Georgia has not recognized
at the official level the fact of genocide of Armenians in the times
of the Ottoman Empire.
Georgia’s "strategic partners" – Turkey and Azerbaijan come forward
against "genocide" and the memorial visit will hardly stay without
attention of official Ankara and Baku, especially taking into account
that the Armenian genocide memorial visit will take place on the eve
of anniversary of the genocide by Armenians themselves in the city
of Khojali in Azerbaijan.
By the present the Armenian genocide has been recognized by Uruguay
(in 1965), Russia, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Poland,
Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Cyprus, Lebanon,
Canada, Venezuela and Argentina. The Armenian genocide was also
recognized by Vatican, European Parliament, and World Council of
Churches.