PRESIDENT OF BELGIAN CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES VISITED MEMORIAL TO
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE VICTIMS
04.04.2005 07:19
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives
Herman de Croo, who is paying a 2-day call to Armenia at the moment,
visited the Memorial to the Armenian Genocide victims. Yerkir
online reports. He laid a wreath to the monument and planted a
fir sapling on the Alley of Friendship. “We wish constructive and
sensible peace to the nations of the South Caucasus. The best way
to commemorate the victims is to achieve peace in future”, Herman
De Croo noted. He informed that Belgian parliamentarians will visit
Georgia and Azerbaijan, which are included in the Wider Europe:
New Neighbors program. On occasion of the upcoming 90-th anniversary
of the Armenian Genocide Director of the Genocide Museum-Institute,
Academician Lavrenty Barseghian presented the high rank guest with a
medal and books about the crime against humanity. To remind, in 1998
the Belgian Senate adopted a resolution condemning the Genocide and
called Turkey to acknowledge the crime committed.