Pan Armenian News
GAREGIN II THANKED RUSSIAN STATE DUMA FOR ADOPTING STATEMENT ON ARMENIAN
GENOCIDE
23.04.2005 04:07
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Yesterday Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II met with
Vice-Speaker of the Russian State Duma Georgi Boos, the Press Service of the
Chancellery of Holy Echmiadzin reported. Garegin II said he was satisfied
with the State Duma adopting a statement again denouncing the Armenian
Genocide and urging the international community to commemorate the victims
of the tragic events of 1915. «We are convinced that time will come when the
concepts of genocide and war will be the history. I hope that the censure of
the Armenian Genocide will help recognize how fragile our world is,» Georgi
Boos noted. In the course of the meeting the interlocutors discussed
questions of friendly relations of the peoples of Armenia and Russia, as
well as cooperation between the Armenian Apostolic and the Russian Orthodox
Churches.